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Hi Please tell me what conditional these are and it they are correct If we take a look at the table of contents it tell us what topics are included and on what page the information is located Is this concern with what some people seem to call universal truth and thus a zero conditional A table of...

quote user badegine Behind the doors there were to be other chambers possibly a succession of them where we should find the coffin lying quote It is a characteristic of British English and of American English to a lesser extent and especially in older forms of the language on both sides of the...

quote user Anonymous 1 I would weigh 75 80 kilos if I start eating chocalates candies etc quote Hi RotterI can t believe you are having problems with conditional sentences Swedish and English are so closely related that the auxiliaries infinitives and tenses are used in exactly the same way in...

Hi Are these all examples of the first conditional If a if clause is in the present tense then any modal verbs can be used and it would still be a first conditional sentence A zero conditional sentence is the one only states general rules and can t use modal verbs All first conditional If I hear...

Many thanks for the response but I m not sure how it can be correct and this is almost entirely my fault for not setting out an example well enough In the coffin quotation I believe that it can t simply be a subjunctive mood form because by inserting we thought into it an element of doubt is...

Brainflash could this be an example of the now largely defunct English version of the Imperfect Subjunctive I don t know how far one can change would to should for such a tense but it seems reasonable Looking at Wikipedia to find an example I find If I were rich I would retire to the south of...

Brainflash could this be an example of the now largely defunct English version of the Imperfect Subjunctive I don t know how far one can change would to should for such a tense but it seems reasonable Looking at Wikipedia to find an example I find If I were rich I would retire to the south of...

I m unsure as to how to define the tense in a sentence such as the following Behind the doors there were to be other chambers possibly a succession of them where we should find the coffin lying This perhaps isn t the best example but it s the only one I have available to me now It s from an early...

I m unsure as to how to define the tense in a sentence such as the following Behind the doors there were to be other chambers possibly a succession of them where we should find the coffin lying This perhaps isn t the best example but it s the only one I have available to me now It s from an early...

I think you re right For some reason my heart prefers the present tense unreal I know it contradicts with 10 years ago The third conditional is also unreal in that you would always be referring to something that did not happen It would be fine if without a time in the past for example If I read...