<p>Alright, we shall settle this when silverturtle gets here lol.</p>
<p>sorry that was a bad example cus agility is still an attribute</p>
<p>i cant figure out what the verdict is governing the use of was/were concerning a past event</p>
<p>if I was mean to you yesterday, I’m sorry</p>
<p>or am i being stupid again</p>
<p>if the test was harder, i wouldve done better</p>
<p>Alright I figured it out. We would need to use the Past perfect. So it would be:</p>
<p>I really wish the test had been harder.
If the cat had been just a bit faster, it would be able to catch the mouse.
If I had been mean to you yesterday, I’m sorry.</p>
<p>At least thats what I think it should be. I’ll ask silverturtle at 5 AM EST.</p>
<p>u mean it wouldve been able to catch the mouse</p>
<p>and i dont think the past perfect applies to “If I had been mean to you yesterday, I’m sorry” cus yesterday is a specific time in the past</p>
<p>you could say that </p>
<p>if i had been mean to you over the summer, I’m sorry</p>
<p>and cosign on the test’s sentence’s use of past perfect</p>
<p>I just know in Spanish I would say something like "Es una l</p>
<p>Hmm…alright, I see your arguments. I guess we will just have to wait for silver.</p>
<p>oh lord dont even get me started on spanish lol</p>
<p>hmmm well if u think about it, the way you presented the mouse sentence:</p>
<p>if the cat had been just a bit faster, it would be able to catch the mouse.</p>
<p>thats just temporal inconsistency because ur saying that if the cat had been faster in some past endeavor, it would be able(that is, it possesses a present-day skill) to catch the mouse?</p>
<p>and im almost positive that the past perfect only applies to a broad range of time, or otherwise relative to some other moment in time.</p>
<p>I was late yesterday vs I had been late yesterday</p>
<p>I was late over the summer vs I had been tardy throughout the summer</p>
<p>and waiting for silver sounds like a good idea lol</p>
<p>if you say that yesterday’s show was more exciting than wednesday’s, i would have to kill you</p>
<p>sorry for the horrendous examples lol</p>
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<p>omg it has TAKEN OVER YOUR SOUL. you poor children… 
last year I think, -1 on math was a 790. where are you guys getting 770 from?! that seems wayyy harsh…</p>
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<p>I believe that people think the test was so easy that -1 = 770 would be justifiable. I, on the other hand, don’t think it was that easy. Or at least, I fantasize that it wasn’t so easy. :P</p>
<p>It’s true that -1 in math has been 760 before. It was that way in November 2009 (I burned in the inferno of -2 = 740) and several others, I believe.</p>
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<p>The curve changes from test to test. So one test last year was -1=790, but other tests the same year would have been different. We got the 770 from a) the one score someone posted and b) the fact that it felt easier than usual. If -2=770, it would mean -1 and -0 would have to be 800 (based on previous curves). That only occurs for especially hard tests, which this most certainly wasn’t.</p>
<p>I thought I would add to this…</p>
<p>“If the cat had been just a bit faster, it would be able to catch the mouse.”</p>
<p>What’s funny is that this concept was similarly tested on the January test haha. Anyone recall the “Were the walls to be painted…” question? All the answers tried to trick you by messing with the tense, but the correct answer was indeed “Were the walls to be painted…” because it correctly implemented the subjunctive + conditional construction.</p>
<p>The sentence I quoted above is wrong because it does not correctly implement that construction…
It would be “If the cat had been just a bit faster, it WOULD HAVE BEEN able to catch the mouse.”</p>
<p>On the subject of Spanish…
This sentence is like "hubiera + past partciple, habr</p>
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<p>yea thats exactly what i said
good catch nonetheless</p>
<p>better catch on the spanish lol</p>
<p>Oh…no…small curve?</p>
<p>I took the PSAT and had -1 for math, = 75 so I wouldn’t be surprised with -1 being 760.</p>
<p>yeah
the psat curves were brutal
-1 in writing = 75 >:O</p>
<p>That’s because the PSAT Saturday was a lot easier than January’s SAT.</p>
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<p>“I really wish the test had been harder.”<br>
"If the cat had been just a bit faster, it would have been able to catch the mouse.
“If I had been mean to you yesterday, I would be sorry.”</p>
<p>Expressions of uncertainty such as “I hope that…” usually require the subjunctive, as does the unreal future conditional (includes “would”). Subjunctive can be used for unreal present conditional and unreal past conditional, as well.</p>
<p>I see that you are awake, silverturtle! Couldn’t sleep? :P</p>
<p>I think your prediction turned true for CR curve.</p>