Tenses Home "If..." sentence: |
| If I were you, I'd take it back to the shop. |
| I'd like a cup of coffee, please. |
Past of "will" |
| He said he would be here by now. |
"Used to + " |
| We used to have a big party and all our friends would come... |
If...
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I'd
The contraction of "I should" or "I would".
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Polite form
You can think of a polite form as part of an "If..." sentence; it is the idea of
"if" that makes it polite.
For other ways of ordering in a restaurant or caf‚...
He said he would
This is an example of Reported Speech, where the tense in the whole sentence changes after
the past Tense of the first verb "said".
Used to +
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