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This is just a negative of a standard type 2 conditional I would sell it to you if it shot straight This construct is used where fulfilment of the if clause is improbable or impossible but still current By the way it is not past tense its imperfect subjunctive although the two are identical in...

I watch a movie The gun salesman said the gun shoot straight although it is cheap in price and then he said I wouldn t sell it to you if it didn t I understand this is a subjunctive mood and I understand the rules But why it uses past form of verb to present present in subjunctive mood it got to...

H You could use were here but it would be the subjunctive eg If it were to rain tomorrow I would get wet But it won t rain eg If the curtain were to fall down on the actors heads it would hurt them But it won t fall Best wishes Clive

Subjunctive is used when the action is not REAL or PREFFERED And it s rarely used in contemporary English in idiomatic expression or in more formal speech Relative clause Subordinate Clause Adjectival Clause is used when you want to give more information about event or person or thing is...

Thanks Fandorin nominal and subjunctive are 2 new terms I haven t learned and I will look them up My first instinct said adjective clause now you revised it to nominal clause does it still full under adjective clause and decided that the book make an innocent mistake until I encountered other...

I m sorry I made a mistake Of course it s a Nominal Clause I hurried up Her idea that I hire you was a very fun one It s kind of Subjunctive And as I know only Present Tense can be used in Nominal Clause Her idea that I hire you is a very fun one

They are all correct For lengthier discussions with lots of examples of the use of the past perfect tense after before see Re before past perfect tense past tense and Re Past Simple or Past Perfect This is a common pattern for expressing interruptive relationships between actions Leaving...

If I didn t hang on now all of my past efforts would have been in vain HI I try to make a subjunctive sentence with an unreal presence in the if clause and an unreal past in the main clause But I am not sure if the above make sense to you If not could you make one similar sentence Thanks

quote user Kooyeen You never taught me those conditionals quote Maybe I thought you were better off not knowing Or maybe you didn t ask quote user Kooyeen use the simple past instead of the subjunctive formed with the past perfect in informal and casual English quote No While it s true that...

quote user CalifJim If he saw the bridge through the fog it would have been a miracle I think these patterns are mixed because they are not true hypotheticals They are closer to purely past indicative statements like If I was tired it was understandable I had worked hard all day quote...