Actually, since it has "would" I think it makes it conditional. I'm running out the door but I think it's conditional perfect? I think future perfect is I will have ____. I will have finished typing this sentence vs. I would have finished if I hadn't procrastinated.
I hated grammar issues like this in school because I remember thinking these tenses shouldn't even exist, they are so ridiculous. I think it might fall into the realm of the subjunctive because all grammar things I resent I categorize as subjunctive. I was thinking maybe pluperfect subjunctive because it seems the most bizzare. Not sure if that is in any way correct or not.
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I'm just blog surfing........I hope you don't mind this old English teacher jumping in the blog. I think it's future perfect.
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Actually, since it has "would" I think it makes it conditional. I'm running out the door but I think it's conditional perfect? I think future perfect is I will have ____. I will have finished typing this sentence vs. I would have finished if I hadn't procrastinated.
I hated grammar issues like this in school because I remember thinking these tenses shouldn't even exist, they are so ridiculous. I think it might fall into the realm of the subjunctive because all grammar things I resent I categorize as subjunctive. I was thinking maybe pluperfect subjunctive because it seems the most bizzare. Not sure if that is in any way correct or not.
It's the conditional perfect. And no, I didn't know that off the top of my head!
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/tenses_satz.htm
Everything I know about tenses I learned from Spanish, and yup, I'd chock that one up to conditional perfect.
After I posted I looked up the grammar question...........off the top of the head was incorrect. I agree with theconditional.
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