What are the grammar terms of this tense?
Since my student days I’ve used abbreviations for the tenses. “I would” is for me Conditional 1 (C1) and “I would have done” C2. And for me it is not important whether these verb forms are called tenses, moods or aspects. I only read about my private abbreviations. I know I can, so why not. I’m an English linguist and I think I know better. How can I talk about these verbs forms? I looked up the English names for these forms and found no standard terms. Instead of these forms are awkwardly paraphrased. And when a survey of the tenses is given there are only six tenses, the would-form is generally omitted.
Is this a standard term if form is so small?
Is it wrong to worry the same thing when you’re in bed?
If it
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rains, water falls from the sky and I crank an umbrella then, if it rains, I will
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use it Second Conditional (here we discuss the unlikely – if+past simple, would+infinitive), I never
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want an umbrella.
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Third Conditional “It is the like of 2nd but in the past: if+past perfect, may+perfect infinitive”: If it had rained, I would have had to buy
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an umbrella Mixed Conditional (mix of time from the above – tenses can be mixed) If it had not rained, I wouldn’t
be wet ” (math) Conditional mood is the would+verb
part of second and third conditional.
Mood and aspect can be combined:
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simple aspect: would do (simple conditional)
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progressive aspect: would be doing (progressive conditional)
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perfect aspect: would have done (perfect conditional)
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perfect progressive aspect: would have been doing (perfect progressive conditional)
with all of her movements (henceforth no particular movement) this moment.
