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Does anyone know the answer to these verb-tense questions?
I know there are three verb tenses
Present Perfect Tense (e.g. She has lived in New York City for years)
Past Perfect Tense (e.g. She had lived here for 2 years before you moved here.)
Future Perfect Tense (e.g. I will have completed all the work before 5:00 today),
but I am having trouble with placing these type of sentences within its correct tense…
Question is what tense do these sentences fall under and please explain your answer:
a. The task 'would have been completed'…
b. The task 'should have been completed'…
c. The task 'could have been completed'…
thanks...
2 Answers
- LilakiLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Sentences a, b, c do not belong to any of the above cases. They are what we call "Modal Perfect" which means that we use a modal and a perfect infinitive to refer to past events.
- Patrice LaurenLv 41 decade ago
Actually, there are more verb tenses than you've stated.
"Would, should, and could" make up a conditional tense--as in the would, should, could is part of the condition of the verb. It didn't actually happen--yet, but if it did....
If it should happen...
If it would be be able to happen...
If it could happen....
You generally have present, past, and future tenses. Adding the "have lived, has lived, or had lived" involved adding the helping verb to make the tense a "perfect tense." This is a complicated tense, but you just add the "conditional" part to the past present, or future.
"Will have" is an indication that the action did not happen yet. It's future conditional. .
Hope this helps. It is confusing.
Source(s): www.Patrice.Writing.com
