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		<title>Do you wish you hadn&#8217;t done that &#8212; or that you wouldn&#8217;t have done it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivy Wigmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is correct? Mark Zuckerberg said he wished they _______ decided to work only with HTML5 instead of native apps for Facebook mobile development. a. hadn&#8217;t b. wouldn&#8217;t have Answer: a Explanation:  Wouldn&#8217;t have is used in conditional sentences, which state conditions. Facebook wouldn&#8217;t have decided to use only HTML5 for mobile development IF they&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Which is correct?</strong><br />
Mark Zuckerberg said he wished they _______ decided to work only with HTML5 instead of native apps for Facebook mobile development.<br />
a. hadn&#8217;t<br />
b. wouldn&#8217;t have</p>
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<p><strong>Answer: a</strong></p>
<p><strong>Explanation: </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><em>Wouldn&#8217;t have</em> is used in conditional sentences, which state conditions. Facebook wouldn&#8217;t have decided to use only <a href="http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/HTML-5">HTML5</a> for mobile development IF they&#8217;d known how it would work out.</p>
<p>That construction is known as third conditional, for talking about something that didn&#8217;t happen that would have made a difference to the current situation. Here are some examples, from <a href="http://www.spotlight-online.de/language/basics/conditional-3">Spotlight-Online</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px">The third conditional or conditional 3 is formed like this:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px">if + <strong>past perfect ,                        </strong><strong>would have</strong> + <strong>past participle</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px">• &#8220;What <strong>would</strong> you <strong>have done</strong> if it <strong>had happened</strong> to you?&#8221;<br />
• &#8220;If I <strong>had known</strong> you were coming, I <strong>would have combed </strong>my hair.&#8221;<br />
• &#8220;I <strong>would have invited</strong> you to dinner if you<strong>&#8216;d called</strong> me back.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px">* Remember not to put the <strong>would have</strong> in the if-clause:<br />
• &#8220;<del>I would have told you if I would have known the answer</del>.&#8221;</p>
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<div>Usually, there&#8217;s an <em>if</em> involved but other possibilities are possible, such as <em>wish</em>.</div>
<p>It&#8217;s not necessary to explicitly say how things would be different:</p>
<p>&nbsp;<br />
<strong>Incorrect:</strong> I wish I wouldn&#8217;t have sold the farm to buy Facebook stock.<br />
<strong>Correct:</strong> I wish I hadn&#8217;t sold the farm to buy Facebook stock.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the correct way to use <em>wouldn&#8217;t have</em> in a third conditional sentence:</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have sold the farm to buy Facebook stock if I&#8217;d known how overpriced it was.<br />
<strong>Follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/tao_of_grammar">Twitter @tao_of_grammar</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Would have liked to see or would have liked to have seen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivy Wigmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is correct? I would have like to ______ the terms of service before I signed the contract. a. have seen b. see Answer: b Explanation: Because would have liked to places the speaker in the past, the present tense is correct. (Source: The Oxford dictionary of American usage and style) You can put the [...]]]></description>
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<td>Which is correct?<br />
I would have like to ______ the terms of service before I signed the contract.<br />
a. have seen<br />
b. see</td>
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<p>Answer: b</p>
<p>Explanation: Because <em>would have liked to</em> places the speaker in the past, the present tense is correct. (<em>Source: <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=z_VmtjAU01YC&amp;pg=PA352&amp;lpg=PA352&amp;dq=grammar+would+have+liked+to+go+or+would+have+liked+to+have+gone">The Oxford dictionary of American usage and style)</a></em></p>
<p>You can put the sentence the other way around, as well. In that case, it would be &#8220;I would like to have seen the terms of service before I signed the contract.&#8221;</p>
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