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I succeded in editing my post despite you already replied, how strange... anyway, I forgot to write "After a month..."Thank you for your opinions, I really needed someone to check those sentences. The fact is that most grammar books and websites are misleading. I found no websites that explained...

There are other websites that don't agree with each other, so I think I have the right to be confused, don't I? Absolutely. A joyous acceptance of confusion is essential, if you want to understand English grammar. But another grammar book I have (by Cambridge) says nothing about that, it...

Thank you.Michael Swan thinks the same as you, in reported speech when backshifting, present conditional ===> past conditional.But another grammar book I have (by Cambridge) says nothing about that, it just says that "could, should, would, might" don't change when reporting. Another one...

The Choice by William Butler Yeats (1865~1939) The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. When all that story's finished, what's the news? In luck or out the toil has left its...

Anonymous wrote: Hello! I've got a question about a word usage. Hope someboy to help me. There would be a big tree near the pond. ----1 This is the beginning of a conditional sentence, so an if-clause is necessary. A grammar test book says that the above sentence is wrong. It should...

New2grammar wrote: GG, is this a Type 2 Conditional sentence, generally speaking? Let's hope the driver in question was not hired to be a chauffeur or that would be a very inefficient use of company assets. I believe to be Type 2 Conditional, a sentence does not necessarily have to follow...

Grammar Geek wrote: Mr-Taciturn wrote: If any questions arose as to the entries in the passbook,the records of the bank would be referred to. This assumes that the possibility of questions is in the past. In that case, I would say "If any questions arose... the records of the bank...

For those traditional conditional types mentioned by MrP, you may want to have a look at: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditional_3.htm

New2grammar wrote: Even if I had somewhere to go, I can't leave because we're in the middle of nowhere, and I don't have a car. I think "can't" needs to be replaced by "couldn't" to satisfy Conditional Type 2. FYI, I picked this sentence from a native speaker's blog. Can should be could;...

Hi, thanks for all replies. The thing is that I came across this strange sentence going through exercises for my English grammar examination and I'm almost sure that the sentence is correct ( though, probably, no native speaker would create such beauty <img src="/emoticons/emotion-5.gif"...