Friday, August 19, 2016

verbs - The order of tenses


I have a question regarding the order of tenses. Even after looking at many graphs and questions, I couldn't quite figure out the place of present perfects.


I thought the order went from past perfect-> past simple-> present perfect-> present-> future.


Then I saw this example on a website:



The fans would like to have seen some improvement this year. ["Would like" describes a present condition; "to have seen" describes something prior to that time.]




Is would not past tense? How can the present perfect happen before the past tense?


If that is true, is one of these more correct than the other? I thought that the second one would be better since "present perfect" happened after "simple past", but now I'm not quite sure.



I did it as you've requested.



vs



I've done it as you requested.





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