In Subjunctives^x, Conditionals^x

1 If I were in your shoes I would kill him That is subjunctive plus conditional and is correct 2 If I had been in your shoes I would have killed him That is pluperfect plus conditional This is questionable but used in everyday speech 3 If I were to have been in your shoes I would have killed him...

Hi Jack my try I would not put myself in a position where I jeopardized the people working for me or those for whom I worked for the sake of vanity I don t know the exact terms to refer to those words Let s say those two past tenses are kind of like two subjunctives or unreality past tenses It s...

I think you can t understand causative form because have confuses you right I have had my car towed causative form Nothing wrong with this First have belongs to causative form second have shows that the sentence is present perfect to the new apartment They have towed my car in front of my new...

Hi The forms of be was and were are normally past tense but in your example If I were president you are talking about an unreal situation in the form of a conditional sentence Other examples of that would be If I were was younger I would do more sport or If mum were was here she wouldn t approve...

Generally speaking the report of a real conditional indicative and the report of an unreal conditional subjunctive are indistinguishable Once the backshift is applied to report these it is impossible to recover exactly quoted direct speech from the reported form CJ

Anonymous wrote The President said I would take some broccoli if they offered it He said he would take some broccoli if they offered it The result is the same when we report the following The President said I will take some broccoli if they offer it Right Yes

I was watching the movie Ocean s 11 Near the end Daniel Ocean says What if I said I could get your money back if you gave up Tess Is this simply a subjunctive question with reported indicative elements you can get your money back if you give up Tess or is there a subjunctive element to the second...

Inchoateknowledge wrote do we drop the s inflection in conditional mood NO quod erat demonstrandum Mind you it s a poem we re addressing and it owns poetic liscense

do we drop the s inflection in conditional mood NO quod erat demonstrandum

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 mark That old...