"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

Thank you, Mr. Micawber for your prompt reply. You have corrected my original sentence, which, I confess, really was not appropriate in the grammatical tense. So what if I write the sentence as: I have a question concerning English relative

I wish I had been speaking English from childhood. 1. Is this sentence grammatically correct? 2. It can be rephrased like this? I wish I had been speaking English from childhood. = If only I had been speaking English from childhood. = It is a pity

Hi. 1.In John 5:6 of the New International Version of the Bible, it is written: When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" I

Hi. Is the use of past continuous correct in a sentence that has the phrase (dependent clause?) "before coming here to study further." Would you say a past tense or past perfect tense would be correct with what the time phrase "for

I would be greatful for a few tips, many thanks.. Elementary level Describing a person's physical appearance. Parts of the body, colours and clothing (please don’t focus solely on body parts etc but consider physical characteristics

Hi everyone, I was wondering if I could get some help correcting my telf course? I have written what i think the answers are on the side. Thanks in advance for your help. Please look at the opening clauses in these 15 sentences and determine which

Hi, pkr. Thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. I'm sure someone will come along with a more comprehensive analysis than I can provide. I don't think either description is accurate. The author probably intended it as

the second subordinate clause. This is confusing. There is only one subordinate clause, and that's the while clause. The other clause is the main clause. The only thing you can do is get more experience in English, imitating the patterns that

Yet if she could have seen me there, she would have been a little puzzled. What verb form is "could have seen" in this sentence? Personally, I would just call it a "modal perfect" (with could ). I use that term for any modal