conditional

MIA6 wrote:

1. If I were you, ......    Is 'were' the only word matching with 'I' when we talk about conditional? 'were' here doesn't mean past tense, right?  Right. 2. Though the best people breed with best people and they finally get a good child which has all good traits, (but) in this soceity, not everyone is good.  I know that if you write a 'though' sentence, then you can't use 'but', so I have a question: if I write a very long sentence, and it requires some commas, then how could reader knows where 'but' goes? In my example,  I should have added a comma between 'best people' and 'and', but I didn't do it because then, if there are too many commas, how can reader knows that I want 'but' after 'good traits'? How can they understand my meaning?  It is the writer's business to make it clear. It is not the reader's business to work out what the writer might mean.   Thanks a lot for explanation.

Hi,

Maybe i should write this sentence logically, so that even with some commas, readers can still understand. Good idea, why don't you try that and post it again? You might consider breaking it up into twosentences.

Best wishes, Clive