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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Would help

Is this sentence incorrect please? Why?

Jaime would help you yesterday but he had to work.

  

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anonymous Is this sentence incorrect please? Yes, it is incorrect. anonymous Why?

— Mister Micawber

  • anonymous Is this sentence incorrect please?
  • Yes, it is incorrect.
  • anonymous Why?
  • Because in the first clause, 'yesterday' marks the past, which should be 'would have helped'.
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anonymousIs this sentence incorrect please?

Yes, it is incorrect.

anonymousWhy?

Because in the first clause, 'yesterday' marks the past, which should be 'would have helped'.

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Thank you for the answer. I though "would" as a past tense verb could conform to "yesterday".

I think you don't consider "would" a past tense verb here. So, how to identify where it's and where it's not in past tense please?

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Thank you for the reply.

How is it conditional where there is no condition in it?

Is this sentence incorrect too:

He could go to any college he wanted to.

Do you mean yet "could" is not past?


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