Timeline for Being forced in past and future
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| Jul 5, 2016 at 5:02 | vote | accept | lucas | ||
| Jul 5, 2016 at 5:01 | comment | added | Pierce Darragh | @lucas If you wanted to say that the speaker is required to leave now (and not before), they would say "I have to go home now" (instead of "had"). | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 4:59 | comment | added | Pierce Darragh | @lucas "I had to go home" effectively means "I had to go home before right now." The verb "had" in this case is simple past tense: it means that the action it describes ("to go home", in this case) was done before the moment the sentence was uttered. | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 4:55 | comment | added | lucas | Thank you for reply! But how can I know the tense of the sentence if it was alone? I mean, what is the meaning of this sentence? "I had to go home." This means "I had to go home now" or "I had to go home yesterday"? | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 4:45 | history | answered | Pierce Darragh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |