some questions about word, tense etc..
These two sentences are from story.
1: She promised to speak to me after she'd finished.
Q1: is this "she HAD finished right?not would.
2:I don't think I would have had much confidence in docotor.
Q2:a writer was talking about what she would have thought in a past (kind of gessing) that is why form is would have had .and the time she thought is when she as writing ,that is why first one is present tense ??
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I. correct.. She'd here is "she had"
2. Yes in sentence two the speaker is analyzing a past event and how she would have responded if the circumstances were different. http://www.espressoenglish.net/past-modals-should-have-could-have-would-have/
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