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#2 (permalink) Tue Dec 14, 2004 14:37 pm Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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Hi Kristina,
Please take a look at these examples:
I had to buy that car. (My wife made me buy that car so I bought it.) = Simple Past (had to + base verb)
I could have bought that car. (I had the chance to buy that car but I couldn't buy it because I didn't have enough money.) =
Conditional III (could have + past participle). _________________ Test Of English for International Communication TOEIC Preparation & TOEIC Vocabulary |
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#3 (permalink) Tue Dec 14, 2004 16:00 pm Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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#4 (permalink) Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:54 am Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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Dear, Torsten
Thank you for sending me Lesson 6.I found answer for my question in this forum.
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#6 (permalink) Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:08 am Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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hi Torsten I have answered 9 questions out of 10 correctly. i stiil understand about qusetion no 7 please explain me when we use term of : Conditional III (could have + past participle).
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#7 (permalink) Fri Nov 21, 2008 15:31 pm Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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Thank you for your lesson. Luke |
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#8 (permalink) Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:07 am Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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can any one explain for me why we use have instead of had?
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Nour25 You can meet me at english-test.net

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#9 (permalink) Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:09 am Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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I could have bought that car but I didn't have enough money to pay for the petrol.
Correct answer: (b) have
Your answer was: incorrect your sentence: I could had bought that car but I didn't have enough money to pay for the petrol.
Can any one explain for me why we use have instead of had?
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#10 (permalink) Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:45 am Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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I could have bought that car but I didn't have enough money to pay for the petrol.
The second sentence you wrote is written in Past Perfect, and it's true too, I think. But it was not one of the possibilities here.
You had to fill the blank. And the blank is in the first part of the sentence. I could ....... bought that car but I didn't have enough money to pay for the petrol. You can see that Present Perfect is used in the second part of the sentence so you have to use the same tense in the first part too.
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#11 (permalink) Mon May 25, 2009 20:45 pm Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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Hi Torsten, Thanks' for the lesson 6. Even though I got all answers correct conditionals are still kind of a mystery to me. I should practice more on it. |
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#12 (permalink) Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:31 pm Had to buy vs. could have bought |
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Hi Torsten, Thanks for this lesson . I've got 9 out of 10 it was easy one ... |
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