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Devrim55 wrote: If we ...........ready for the YDS exam decently, we .........at least two and a half hours a day for reading questions. a)were to get / should have spared b)got / would have spared c)are to get / had spared d)have gotten / would spare e)have to get / must...

Newbie2007 wrote: Quangtn03 wrote: Hi newbie. "I wish you will have..." is a true conditional sentence. I think this is a letter so the writer have a wish for his friend. The latter is "I wish you will be happy", not "I wish be happy". He write for friend not for himself. Are you...

<<Do we have to use the definite article "the" for each tense or not? >> To be very strict about it, yes, but we frequently write telegraphically and leave out the the , especially on this site, where we use the names of the tenses so often. <<1.In the use of the Present...

Hi, everyone. I've been reading the forums for a while, and I've got a lot of knowledge about conditionals from here. Here's a pattern of conditionals. If + past from verb .., S would/could .. eg. If the sun were to rise in the west, I woud give you a billion dollars. Can I rewrite...

Actually it is the right way of saying it! There's something called MIXED conditionals, and "if i were in your shoes, i would've killed him" is a perfect example. Type 2 Conditional, as Conchita57 meantioned, refers to an unreal situation in the present/future. So when you say "if i were...

Conchita57 wrote: This is not the usual combination of tenses in conditional sentences. You could say either: 'If I were in your shoes, I would kill him' (unreal situation in the present/future) or: 'If I had been in your shoes, I would have killed him' (unreal situation in the past)....

Marius Hancu wrote: 1. If he (was, were) over 18, he would have been hired. were is better than was , but still not the best (see further). My take: If he had been over 18 ... is ok because it's an unreal condition in the past, eg. at the moment of the interview. BUT ... If he were...

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry...

Hi, I really don't know what kind of tense I can put after "I", and what native speakers usually say: My dad would kill me if he knew I am playing with his gun. My dad would kill me if he knew I was playing with his gun. My dad would kill me if he knew I have been playing with...

1. You must be pretty dumb if you get a bad mark. This is fine. It’s the first conditional: modal auxiliary verb + if + present simple 2. You must be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark. This would work as the second conditional if you replaced ‘must’ with ‘would’. In such a...