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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (850)1/23/1998 1:48:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 4710
 
MrB,

>>I would have liked to take a hike.
I would like to have taken a hike.

#1: You are expressing how your felt at a time in the past about an action not taken.

#2: You are expressing how you currently feel about an action not taken in the past.

There's probably a clearer way to express this difference, but I hope this simplifies it. Here's a third way:

"I would have liked to have taken a hike." Here you are expressing how you felt in the past about an action not taken in the more remote past. For example, you are telling some one how you felt yesterday about not taking the hike the previous week.

Jack
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