Usage of tense
Sir, I think I am getting it. If the action is over than we got to use had and would have however, if it's still reflection on the present would should be used.
Ex: "I would get chillies if you told me. " (She still hasn't got the chillies so the action isn't over.)
If it already happened or she has already got them then it would be "I would have got chillies if you had told me. " Correct, sir?
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tostyle un Sir, I think I am getting it. If the action is over than we got to use had and would have The fact that an action is over is not in itself sufficient. The third conditional, using "had" and "would have", is used to talk about imagined past events that did not actually happen .
- tostyle un Sir, I think I am getting it.
- If the action is over than we got to use had and would have The fact that an action is over is not in itself sufficient.
- The third conditional, using "had" and "would have", is used to talk about imagined past events that did not actually happen .
- For example: If I had seen her, I would have asked her.
- You didn't see her, and hence you didn't ask her.
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tostyle unSir, I think I am getting it. If the action is over than we got to use had and would have
The fact that an action is over is not in itself sufficient. The third conditional, using "had" and "would have", is used to talk about imagined past events that did not actually happen. For example:
If I had seen her, I would have asked her.
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