PH, I think that 'had' is possible only if both 'didn't know' and 'had' refer to the same time. In any other case, 'had' would not be possible. But, from the context it clear they don't refer to the same

Are there any examples where we mix and match present tense, past tense, or even future tenses? I think I've recently heard some and it's messing my logic up. Or ppl around me were just not speaking proper English?

"If you knew what I had gone through, you would surely pity me." Don't listen to these people. You can change it to "have" because only the first verb has to be in the subjunctive mood. The verb "knew" is

It can be put in present perfect and past perfect using "if" like this: If the train have already left , we shall/will take the next train. (formal present perfect subjunctive) If the train had already left , we should/would

Mrs Hay___________(drive) along a small country road when she ___________(see) a man at the side of the road. He ___________(wave) and pointing at his car. Mrs Hay ______________(stop) and _________(ask) the man if he was all right. 'My

Very good over all. 4. Many English users would leave the "that" out, but not wrong as written. 9. "at" means at the location, "in school" means attending as a student, and in my area we would say "when I was in

Now if I look up "are," the dictionary tells me that it is the present plural of "be." But what I would expect is that it would tell me that it is the present plural of "am" or "is" because those are the

i want to teach my daughter the past tenses in english as she is very week . THANK U TO SEND ME THE BEST AND SIMPLE LINK I CAN USE TO TEACH HER .

-I opened the door to find we HAD/HAD GOT mice nesting in the wig collection. (in this case, what's the difference between had and had got?) Get-forms of have are less common in the past tense. PS:For answers I used Practical English Usage by

sentence number one "who broke the window" contains a primary form of a verb, the preterite "broke". The second sentence contains a secondary form, the past participle "broken", plus the auxiliary "have".