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Tracy Elina
The meeting was too short. I wish we'd had more time to discuss things.
What's "we'd" here? Would or HAD?
4 mar 2022 03:10
Risposte · 9
I'm not a teacher. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I wish we'd had...
I wish we had had...
You are talking about something that happened in the past before another thing that also happened in the past.
I wish we'd had time to talk before I left yesterday.
I wish we'd have...
I wish we would have...
You are talking about something that didn't happen.
I wish we would have talked more about it, but we didn't.
However, never we'd have like "we would had" or "we had have". Just wrong grammar.
4 marzo 2022
Had. I wish we had had. It's using the past perfect tense of have.
4 marzo 2022
Try them both, and it should be obvious:
We HAD had more time = past perfect
We WOULD had more time = incorrect; doesn't make any sense.
I realize it's a bit confusing, as WE WOULD HAVE HAD MORE TIME is also correct.
5 marzo 2022
"Would" is always followed by the bare infinitive. The same goes for all the "modal auxiliaries". No exceptions. So you can tell me, is the helping verb "would", or "had"?
4 marzo 2022
Yes English is strange at times. 🤣
4 marzo 2022
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Tracy Elina
Competenze linguistiche
Cinese (mandarino), Inglese, Francese, Spagnolo
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese, Francese, Spagnolo
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