I need help to find the names of...

[rosa87]

could you please help me find the names of these tenses:

1.would tell
2.would be telling
3.wold have told
4.wold have been telling


thank you

[riza]

could you please help me find the names of these tenses:

1.would tell
2.would be telling
3.wold have told
4.wold have been telling


thank you

future in the past

[ana2005]

I have seen them referred to as:
1. Present conditional (would tell)
2. Present continuous conditional (would be telling)
3. Perfect conditional (would have told)
4. Perfect conditional - continuous form (would have been telling)
... but I'm not a teacher! I hope it helps anyway

[MikeNewYork]

could you please help me find the names of these tenses:

1.would tell
2.would be telling
3.wold have told
4.wold have been telling


thank you

I agree with Ana, but there are not many people who recognize "conditional" as a tense. Nobody really knows what to call it, but some simple call it a construction. Disagreement about number tense goes on and on. The range of opinion goes from 2 to more than 20.

present conditional
present continuous/progressive conditional
past/perfect conditional
past/perfect continuous/progressive conditional

[rosa87]

I agree with Ana, but there are not many people who recognize "conditional" as a tense. Nobody really knows what to call it, but some simple call it a construction. Disagreement about number tense goes on and on. The range of opinion goes from 2 to more than 20.

present conditional
present continuous/progressive conditional
past/perfect conditional
past/perfect continuous/progressive conditional

thank you,it was a big help

[MikeNewYork]

thank you,it was a big help

You're welcome.