{"id":74135,"date":"2020-04-19T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74135"},"modified":"2024-05-22T06:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T06:40:19","slug":"perfect-infinitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/perfect-infinitives\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Infinitives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Perfect infinitives<\/strong> are forms like <strong>have sent, have received, have worked<\/strong> and <strong>have ordered<\/strong>. They are mainly used after modal auxiliary verbs like <strong>would, should<\/strong> and <strong>could<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You should <strong>have informed<\/strong> me earlier.<\/li><li>You could <strong>have arrived<\/strong> earlier.<\/li><li>I would<strong> have invited<\/strong> him.<\/li><li>You <strong>shouldn&#8217;t have called<\/strong> him a liar.<\/li><li>She <strong>shouldn&#8217;t have ignored <\/strong>the doctor&#8217;s advice.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These expressions are mainly used to criticize people for doing or not doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The perfect infinitive is also used in third conditional sentences. The third conditional is used to talk about hypothetical situations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study the examples given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I would <strong>have invited<\/strong> her if she had been nice to me.<\/li><li>We would<strong> have been <\/strong>in real trouble if I had lost my job.<\/li><li>I could <strong>have won <\/strong>the first rank if I had studied harder. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more about<a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/perfect-infinitives.htm\"> perfect infinitives here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect infinitives are forms like have sent, have received, have worked and have ordered. They are mainly used after modal auxiliary verbs like would, should and could. You should have informed me earlier. You&#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":[852,891,2715],"class_list":["post-74135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-infinitive","tag-perfect-infinitive","tag-perfect-infinitives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74135","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=74135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77580,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74135\/revisions\/77580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}