By Tenses, Modals

Thank you so much again.Here,Your correction:"If John comes home about an hour later, he will be looking for me to play chess with him and when he finds out I am not there, he will be disappointed," I think. Do you have a question about this? Yes,but does it have to be "will"?...

Are they wrong since the modal usages lack the fundamental conditional uses of the modals 'would' and 'could'? Not sure what you're asking. The correct sequence of tenses applies to conditionals as well as to non-conditionals. 1. We are all watching in a sort of stunned...

Hi,Are all sentences that have if-clauses and the main clauses with the modal 'would' second conditional? I think not. Mr. Wordy wrote these sentences in his replay to a question that dealt with a quote.I would call something "a quote" or "a quotation" only if it was...

Hi,1. Let us say this was in quotation marks. How would you validate the use of the underlined tense?The people who built houses; their walls have crumbled, as if they had never been!2. TWO more questions:Does 'as if' in normal sentential situations mean the same as 'if', like...

Would you mind if ... ? takes the past tense with present meaning.In fact, other patterns like it also take the past tense.Would you regret it if you left now?Would you be sorry if Jack went without you?This is the "second conditional" (in question form).CJ

Sentence A. Would you mind if we left now? (ICAL online modals-requests)Hello,Why does the question uses the past tense 'left' instead of 'leave'?Thank you.With best wishes.

Hi,I want to ask you one more question.This sentence: I gathered she must be either here ...I think you would agree that 'gathered' is almost synonomous with the word 'thought' yes and based on that, I want to pose this queston:Why the word (modal??) 'must' is not changed...

Thank you. again. You were more than kind to have answered my questions. Since the need to know is strong, I want to ask you one more question.This sentence: I gathered she must be either here ...I think you would agree that 'gathered' is almost synonomous with the word 'thought';...

Hi Abil Regarding the blue "he" - I assume that it refers back to the blue "him," but the structure makes it sound like it refers back to Che Sung. Notice the tenses in pink: tried, was saved, could be - the switch to the modal here is unexpected. The other things are...

>I thihk the modal 'could' and possibly 'would' have some differing uses.could: about ability, would: about willingnessThe first is a mixed conditional, similar to what you can find on this page:http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/mixedconditional.htmlThis is one of the...