Usage of tense
Wonderful sir. I will backshift tenses even that have a present effect if it's optional.
Sir, how about this?
"It would have been understood if you messaged me and I had stayed up past midnight for it.
Sir would it be wrong if I didn't use had over there?
Another one, sir.
" It didn't get a call from him.
"I had not got a call from him. "
Is this the another way of saying it with different tense?
Thank you so much sir.
Top answer
tostyle un It would have been understood if you messaged me and I had stayed up past midnight for it. I find the sentence overall slightly hard to grasp, but I will focus just on tense. Assuming that he didn't actually message you, it should be "if you had messaged me".
- tostyle un It would have been understood if you messaged me and I had stayed up past midnight for it.
- I find the sentence overall slightly hard to grasp, but I will focus just on tense.
- Assuming that he didn't actually message you, it should be "if you had messaged me".
- As I mentioned earlier, in practice you may hear native speakers not using the correct textbook tenses, so in real life you may encounter substandard third-conditional forms such as "if you messaged me".
- When forming third conditional sentences yourself, you should try to use the textbook forms.
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tostyle unIt would have been understood if you messaged me and I had stayed up past midnight for it.
I find the sentence overall slightly hard to grasp, but I will focus just on tense. Assuming that he didn't actually message you, it should be "if you had messaged me". As I mentioned earlier, in practice you may hear native speakers not using the correct te
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