I have a headache?

Question

As for a conversion rate, I would convert the amount to USD using the rate in effect on the day you received the payment.


I'm a korean. and speak in poor English.


In this sentence,

the import of a statement is future events

however why put to use "received"?

I'd like to know..

Answer 1

This is not a future tense sentence. I **WOULD** convert... this is the subjunctive mood, not the imperative. It is a conditional phrase in the present tense. The person is telling you right now in the present what he would do if he were in the position to be converting money that you have ALREADY received sometime in the past (yesterday, the day before, last week or even last month).

Basically, you received money in a foreign currency sometime before today. You are being told right now how this person would convert that money to USD - by using the currency exchange rate that was in effect on the day that you actually received the money. (Another option would be to take today's currency exchange rate and convert it using that.)

Answer 2

I can see why you have a headache. For that I recommend aspirin.
For your question about English language and why "received" is used rather than "receive" read this,

Future tenses
Simple future: "I shall/will listen." This is used to express that an event will occur in the future, or that the speaker intends to perform some action.
Future continuous: "I shall/will be listening." This is used to express an ongoing event that has not yet been initiated.

Future perfect: "I shall/will have listened." This indicates an action which will occur before some other action in the future: Normally two actions are expressed, and the future perfect indicates an action which will occur in the future but will, at the time of the main future action expressed, be in the past (e.g. "I will know the tune next week because I will have listened to it").

Future perfect continuous: "I shall/will have been listening." Expresses an ongoing action that occurs in the future, before some other event expressed in the future.

So the tense of the verb receive is "future perfect" because the act of conversion cannot take place until the money has first been received.

Answer 3

It okay I am Egyptian and don't understand. I wish Luck. Habeebee