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Anusha Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

About the use of tenses

at what situations we should use might have and would have?
  

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Hi Anusha, Welcome to English Forums. you know what you would have done If I knew then what I know today, I might have reacted differently. (Maybe you would react differently, maybe not) If I knew then what I know now, I would have chosen a different career after graduation.

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  • Hi Anusha, Welcome to English Forums.
  • you know what you would have done If I knew then what I know today, I might have reacted differently.
  • (Maybe you would react differently, maybe not) If I knew then what I know now, I would have chosen a different career after graduation.
  • ) Hope this helps.
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Hi Anusha,

Welcome to English Forums.

Might have....uncertainty exists

Would have....you know what you would have done


If I knew then what I know today, I might have reacted differently. (Maybe you would react differently, maybe not)

If I knew then what I know now, I would have chosen a different career after graduation. (If you could do th
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"might have" Conjectures, guesses about the past. Something that was possible, but not known with certainty, in the past. Conditions are not implied.

I don't where my glasses are. I might have misplaced them at the office. I might have lost them at the concert. Someone might have stolen them.

Substitutes for "might have": "may have", "could have".
Paraphrase: Mayb
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Hi CalifJim,

Great answer! You provide very thorough and easy-to-understand answers. I always enjoy reading your answers because I always learn something.

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