I would like to have visited Liverpool while I was in UK but I didn't manage to.

[svetlana14]

1. I would like to have visited Liverpool while I was in UK but I didn't manage to.
2. I would have liked to visit Liverpool while I was in UK but I didn't manage to.
3. I would have liked to have visited Liverpool while I was in UK but I didn't manage to.

Are these sentences conventional constructions? I do understand that the last one is grammatically correct but it's clumsy and cumbersome.

 

[emsr2d2]

1. I would like to have visited Liverpool while I was in UK but I didn't manage to.
2. I would have liked to visit Liverpool while I was in UK but I didn't manage to.
3. I would have liked to have visited Liverpool while I was in UK but I didn't manage to.

Are these sentences conventional constructions? I do understand that the last one is grammatically correct but it's clumsy and cumbersome.

In 1, the "would like"-ing is happening now. (Right now, after my trip to the UK has finished, I wish I had visited Liverpool.)
In 2, the "would like"-ing was happening while in the UK. (While I was in the UK, I wished I could visit Liverpool (but I didn't).)
I don't find 3 grammatical. There are too many "have"s.

 

[5jj]

emsr2d2's response is correct. Many native speakers get these wrong.

 

[emsr2d2]

emsr2d2's response is correct.

I'm going to frame that!

 

[Rover_KE]

emsr2d2's response is correct.

I'm going to frame that!

It’s not unusual - a lot of your responses are correct.

 

[Lycidas]

Many native speakers get these wrong.

One very famous instance of that, amusingly (and touchingly), occurs in Sir Elton John's "Candle in the Wind"—in the original version, about Marilyn Monroe, not his 1997 variation, to honor Princess Diana at her funeral. Queen Elizabeth, incidentally, knighted Elton John a year after the 1997 variation. One wonders if her late majesty had been pleased, at least in part, by the omission of the line with the perfect infinitive following "would have liked."

And I would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid.

Nearly a century ago, about this common mistake H. W. Fowler wrote: "PERFECT INFINITIVE, i.e. to have done &c. These are forms that often push their way in where they are not wanted . . . . After past conditionals such as should have liked, would have been possible, would have been the first to, the present infinitive is (almost invariably) the right form, but the perfect often intrudes . . . ." (A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, p. 429. Oxford University Press, 1926).

 

[svetlana14]

I am a little bit confused as I have read your posts #3,4,5. Could please look into my questions again and confirm what appears to be correct.

 

[5jj]

Post #2 seems clear enough to me. Is it not to you?

 

[emsr2d2]

I am a little bit confused as even though I have read your posts #3, 4 and 5. Could you please look into my questions again and confirm what which of my sentences appears to be is/are correct.

I thought post #2 was pretty clear but, for the sake of clarity, here's the simpler answer:

Sentences 1 and 2 are OK and sentence 3 is not.

 

[svetlana14]

Post #2 seems clear enough to me. Is it not to you?

Now everything is clear. Thank you.