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Rashid rajal Posted 10 years ago
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1.If you had been there. I would have preferred to sleep than play or sleeping than playing or both correct.
2.If I had money. I would have spent money on poor than or rather than eating expensive foods.
Or. I would have preferred spending on poor to eating expensive foods.
Since we are talking about past. Should we use eaten expensive foods instead of eating.
  

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If you had been there, I would have preferred to sleep rather than play. If you had been there, I would have preferred sleeping to playing. ) If I had money [now], I would spend it on the poor rather than eating expensive food.

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  • If you had been there, I would have preferred to sleep rather than play.
  • If you had been there, I would have preferred sleeping to playing.
  • ) If I had money [now], I would spend it on the poor rather than eating expensive food.
  • If I had had money [in the past], I would have spent it on the poor rather than eating expensive food.
  • Note that your full stops are incorrect.
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If you had been there, I would have preferred to sleep rather than play.
If you had been there, I would have preferred sleeping to playing.
(The scenario seems a little artificial.)

If I had money [now], I would spend it on the poor rather than eating expensive food.
If I had had money [in the past], I would have spent it on the poor rather than eating expensive food.
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Thanks.
If we want to extend the sentence then which tense we will use. For example.
I would have spend on poor and helped other needful people asked them or ask them to pray for me.
Please correct me with other examples
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rashid rajalI would have spend on poor
"I would have spend on poor" is incorrect. Please see my earlier reply.
rashid rajaland helped other needful people asked them or ask them to pray for me.
"I would have spent ... and (I would have) helped ... and (I would have) asked ...".

The underlined wo
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I got it. We should use same tense that we have used on very start. Start.
Example.
I used to play football and won the trophies and gave parties to friends.
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rashid rajalI got it. We should use same tense that we have used on very start. Start. Example. I used to play football and won the trophies and gave parties to friends.
I used to play football and [to] win trophies and [to] throw/give parties for my friends.
I used to play football and won many trop
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Why we dont use past here as we did in last example.
Why its not like that.
I used to play cricket and won the match and threw parties to my friends.
Is that correct.
When he used to hear that i had or i have come he left the room.
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rashid rajal I used to win and gave parties.
This doesn't work. The 'to' is optional, but after 'to' you need the plain form of the verb, whether you include it or not.

I used to
win
and
give parties.

OR

I used
to win
and
to give parties.

CJ
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It means we will use present even we are talking about past.
1.when I used to ask him where he was .he tells or used to tell that he was sleeping.
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rashid rajalIt means we will use present even we are talking about past.
No. You need to study all the forms of the verb. Very frequently the present tense and the infinitive look exactly the same, but they are different forms; they have different names. Very frequently the simple past and the past participle look exactly the same, but they are different fo
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Brilliant information.
Can you share with me a link of all verbs with this much details. So i can study.
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