Unreal tenses use the past tense for present situations and the past perfect for past situations. For example: "I would rather we had never met" =past perfect for past time "I would rather you smoked outside." =

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

1 Simple Past Where was he last night?     >>>  Simple Past He may have been at his house last night.   >>> Present Perfect  The question is in the form of " simple past " , so the answer should be as well. Where

Hi. 1. I think the verb forms used in conditional sentences (usually? mostly?) are the past forms of the modals "will","can", "shall", "may," but not always, as in this case: If you have money, you

FB wrote on 06 Jul 2004: She might have called me the next day Can this mean that she might actually have called him or not? Only if this is an elliptical sentence, but there isn't enough information to say any more about that. To pout the

Yes, in this case, you use the perfect aspect: Oh, wonderful, I see. I don't think I quite understand the second sentence: I suppose he thought that she might have called him. As the modal is in a subordinate clause, I would have thought

FB wrote on 06 Jul 2004: FB wrote on 06 Jul 2004: She told me that ... to talk to him, because he might be a stranger. Thank you. What if, instead, some people were speculating, now, about the past? 1) - They found a man lying ... told me not to