By Past tenses, Direct questions

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for your replying to my stupid question. I really appreciate it. Hi Anon, In contrary, I don’t think your question is stupid. It brings up an issue that has stirred many good discussions in this forum and elsewhere. Here is an extracted text that...

Mountain wrote:Sometimes when I want to ask my friend who he had for the last semester but I'm not certain which to use."Who did you have for *** last semester?" Should it be had instead of have? No But had didn't sound right to me. Good. The word did is the word that establishes the simple past...

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1) Would you please help me finish these clauses ? a) If you were to give him a chance… b) If you were to fail … c) Would it be possible to use the indicative “If you ARE …” in the above clauses ? What difference would it make? JTT: It's theoretically possible but the more common use is,...