Hello, I'm confused about the sentence "I wish you had never been born." I don't quite get why the "had" is used.. is that making the sentence have past perfect tense? Or does it have something to do with

Here's how it should be: Jackson would have celebrated his fiftieth birthday this August if he were alive . Jackson would have celebrated his fiftieth birthday this August if he had not died earlier this year . There are a

They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have

Matt: the bold-faced words are an example of the past perfect (had + past participle). For example: We HAD already EATEN (from 6 - 6:30 p.m.) when you arrived at 7 p.m. So there was no food left for you. In your sentence, however, we have what is

Hi, Here are the ones that I would correct (and I hope I haven't made any mistakes, but if I have somebody will fix them, don't worry! ): 1. If I knew where he lived, I’ d visit him. 1- second 3. If I hadn’t picked up Martin’s

I understand that this sentence is difficult, possibly even tortured. Were I to publish it, I would probably rewrite it to something like: " played on rock radio. I believe rock radio would not have played it if the song had been performed

Just a quick note. The most recent post on this thread before yours was more than two years ago. You can't always be sure anyone on the original thread is around anymore to benefit from your contributions when the thread is this old. I

Yes that´s correct. you can say it that way:if i studied harder at college,I would have a better job.Now the scond type conditional als0 has variations to the make it sound more tentative.For example you can also say:If i shoud study harder at

Please, can you check my post about something similar to this problem? It's a conditional with the "would" + present perfect in the IF-clause, where we are to use past perfect. I commented at the other thread:

Mr. Wordy, Please, can you check my post about something similar to this problem? It's a conditional with the "would" + present perfect in the IF-clause, where we are to use past perfect. Can you give us some examples