Tag: regret
I wish, Would, and If Only in Conditionals
I wish is a phrase used to express a desire for something that is not currently true or likely to happen. It is often used in conditional statements to convey hypothetical situations or regrets about the past. The structure typically involves I wish followed by a past tense verb or a past perfect tense verb.
The Future Perfect in the Past
The Future Perfect in the Past is used to talk about a completed action in the future from a point in the past. It is formed by using would have plus the past participle of the main verb.
The Future Perfect tense
We use the Future Perfect to talk about an action that will be completed by a certain point in the future. Example: By the time you come back, I will have finished the report.
The Past Perfect tense
In the Past perfect tense, the auxiliary verb had is used with the past participle form of the verb to indicate that the action was completed before a past action or time.