By Sentence structures, Conditionals

Kooyeen, If my comment meant anything , or for whatever it is worth, this is what I understand: These 2 sentences are type 3 Conditional (past perfect conditional) . It doesn’t matter where “never” is placed, meaning is the same. You will find # 1 more commonly used. 1) If you hadn't told...

Hi Quoc Your sentence structure is fine. I'm not sure what you mean by "report" it. Your sentences would be the direct speech used to talk about the letter you want(ed) to write on Saturday: On Friday (yesterday) you decided to try to write a letter on Saturday. So, on Friday your direct...

Emily__ wrote: which sentence is correct (I´m not sure if I could use "which" at the beginning of the sentence - the more I learn the more doubtful I am ) 1. If you really want to be helpful, then you have to tell me the truth. 2. If you really want to be helpful, then you will have to tell...

Yes, it sounds reasonably natural. Some notes:Use a variety of sentence structures-- complex, compound-complex, etc-- rather than a series of short simple sentences.Commas go inside of the quotation marks for quotes; as do periods, if the quote is the entire sentence.Latter, not later'in charge...

I read in my English grammar book: I would have been (past conditional) happy if he had come (past perfect). I read in a novel a sentence structure that I never encountered but it is similar to the contrary-to-fact structure: James wondered absently how different his life might have been had he...