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| Thread ID: 65150 | 2006-01-09 08:47:00 | When to use past-tense for verbs after the word "if" ? | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 419371 | 2006-01-09 08:47:00 | Greetings, people. First and foremost, thanks for your time. Secondly, I realise that some verbs after the word "if" appear to be past-tense even though we are talking about present. For example: "If I were you, I would ...." "If he continues doing this, ..." "Even if he does not like doing this, ..." etc. Can someone please tell me when to use past or present tense for the verbs. My teacher is having her holiday at the moment, so I can't approach her via email. :annoyed: Cheers and thanks :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 419372 | 2006-01-09 15:51:00 | I would not worry to much about it, KIDS grow up into GOATS, and I think it would be neat to have http://dubdubdub.pressf1.at.pcworld.co.nz/ |
Eric (378) | ||
| 419373 | 2006-01-09 22:10:00 | THey're all conditionals. You must have done the first second and thrid conditionals sometime in yr language training. And different conditional forms of the first, like the ones above you will have had been being using by the time you wrote the above. If I keep practising my eng, I will get better. (no time restriction - can happen in the future) look up "english conditionals." gotta be on the net somewhere. Can't realy be bothered typing it all out here. And did you ever get a copy of Michael Swan's Current English Usage? |
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