Use past tense to talk about hypothetical situations in the future
I found the following sentence in a movie. The context is there is a boy who do not like to fly and the girl tell him the following sentence. In fact, I cannot understand the grammar associated with the following sentence. I mean, could someone please let me know why they has used "had" instead of "have" in the second half of the sentence.
I would make sure you had a good flight.
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dileepa I mean, could someone please let me know why they has used "had" instead of "have" in the second half of the sentence. Because it is talking about a hypothetical/imagined event. )
- dileepa I mean, could someone please let me know why they has used "had" instead of "have" in the second half of the sentence.
- Because it is talking about a hypothetical/imagined event.
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dileepa I mean, could someone please let me know why they has used "had" instead of "have" in the second half of the sentence.
Because it is talking about a hypothetical/imagined event. (Sometimes called "unreal past".)
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