I thought have was needed before spread to keep a single tense. That would be a good solution: They have appeared on message boards and in blogs and have spread by word of mouth. There are no dependent clauses here, by

"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

0)Factual Conditionals:Present This kind talks about general truths and scientific facts.You can also use it to talk about habits and recurring events. If you vote,you can have a say. 1)Factual Conditionals:Future Use future factual conditional

'Killed' is simple past because we use simple past for past perfect in dependent clauses where the main verb is past perfect; we do not repeat it.

Hi, 'Recovered' is a verb tense there (Simple Past). It's like 'After Mary cooked dinner'. The presence of such a verb makes it a clause, just as the lack of a verb is what makes something a phrase. That's how I

1. What is the correct expression regarding what one does on the weekend: "What do you do on the weekend?" " What do you on weekends /on the weekends?" All are possible. I like the underlined one best. 2. What is

I wish... happened now is not correct. You can say It would be nice if ... happened now or I hope ... happens now or I wish ... would happen now. However, I wish... happened refers to something in the past, not "now" or in the

I remember the past perfect tense "had not seen" should be used to denote an event happened before another event at in the past Yes. That is one of the uses of the past perfect, and the most common one. In the case at hand, the clauses

Okay, thanks for coming in. I was told that we ought to use simple past for "last year", and present perfect for "in the last year". Since "last year" is clear enough to be a specific time but not for "in the

"I never knew that you have such a callous heart." knew and thought in the main clause are almost never followed by a subordinate clause in the present tense. You'll rarely go wrong by backshifting, regardless of the verb in the