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Are they both correct? I think, there might be problems if we went to the party. I think, there might be problems if we go to the party. Thanks in advance.

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The second one is correct. You are speculating about something that could occur: I think there might be problems if we go to the party. You could rephrase the first sentence to reflect the past tense: I think there might have been problems if we had gone to the party. Neither sentence needs a comma. "There might HAD been" is incorrect English. (I'm a native English speaker from the U.S.)
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Without the commas, both are fine for spoken English.
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Thank everybody for helping me. Stay safe.
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You don't need a comma in either sentence, first of all. The second sentence is fine. The first isn't. I have to respectfully disagree with the previous posters, I don't think that "there might *had* been problems" is right at all. It sounds dead wrong to me. I wish I could give you the grammatical explanation, but I don't have it, it's just a sense of the language, although I'm sure there is a proper explanation. The closest I can get to a correct sentence, mantaining your original meaning is: "I think there might have been problems had we gone to the party". I'd love to see more opinions and inputs on this. Hope it helps.
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Might means that you have some little knowledge of the situation/that may or may not happend. The first one should be "There might had been." - but the second one is right as well.

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