Dear friend, normally, the subjunctive were follows as if/as though : He spoke as if she were dead. However, the ordinary present tense is required where the emphasis is on truth rather than falsity : It's not as if he' s dishonest (= he

If your answer was "yes" to the above question, you will go to step 2. This is possible, but as an instruction the imperative would normally be used. If your answer was "yes", go to step 2. If you would, I will be happy. This

Hello everyone, I wish it would stop raining – I know ‘wish’ and ‘would’ are the key to the construction - but I don’t know what the tense is… Subject + wish + it (what is it?)+ would (modal auxiliary verb) + verb + gerund Hi, You

Hello, I'm confused about the sentence "I wish you had never been born." I don't quite get why the "had" is used.. is that making the sentence have past perfect tense? Or does it have something to do with

I just want to point out the word "could" is indicative of the subjunctive mood Modal verbs don't have tenses and moods in the way that other verbs do. could certainly acts like a past subjunctive in If I could help you, I would.

It's Mexico, you're lucky if you made 20k a year. Could this be seen as a conditional sentence by putting made in the past tense? Since we're conversing in the present but I'm implying that he'd be lucky if he hypothetically

Hello everyone! Some questions were coming up with my head while watching TV drama 'Supernatural'. There were scripts like following. 1. If the ghosts are in hell, how can they hear the chanting? 2. If the ghosts were in

Hi, Whoever wrote the question for # 1, he'd better to back to school to learn his grammar all over agian. "Must" has about the same meaning as "have to". I must go! It's getting late/ I hav eto go..

So the had to implies that the sentence is past tense?

"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