{"id":72226,"date":"2019-09-17T06:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72226"},"modified":"2019-09-17T06:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:17:04","slug":"could-have-past-participle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/could-have-past-participle\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Have + Past Participle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">The structure <b>could have + past participle<\/b> is used to say that somebody was capable of doing something, but didn\u2019t try to do it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <b>could have become <\/b>the President if he had contested the election.<\/li>\n<li>I was so angry I <b>could have killed<\/b> him.<\/li>\n<li>I <b>could have married<\/b> her if I had wanted to.<\/li>\n<li>She <b>could have won<\/b> the race if she had run a bit faster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This structure can also be used to criticize people for not doing things.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You <b>could have asked<\/b> me before using my computer.<\/li>\n<li>You <b>could have finished<\/b> that project before starting another.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>You <b>could have locked<\/b> the door before going out.<\/li>\n<li>He <b>could have consulted<\/b> his doctor before taking that drug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The structure could have + past participle is used to say that somebody was capable of doing something, but didn\u2019t try to do it. He could have become the President if he had contested&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1416,1415,890],"class_list":["post-72226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-could-have","tag-could-have-past-partciple","tag-past-participle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72227,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72226\/revisions\/72227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}