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Mr Pedantic wrote: Just to clarify: 3d. If you're able to do this exercise, you would be very clever. If someone said this to me, I would find it very strange. 'You must be very clever' would be the natural continuation; 'you are very clever' would also be quite likely. But 'you...

Hello MrP Thank you for correcting my answers. I think I misunderstood #3 to #7 (#3 above all). I think the grammar book the questioner refers is Quirk's CGEL. Those conditionals are really hard for me to get. paco

Hello Hela Here are some alternatives: I/ CONDITIONAL : 3a. If you are able to do this exercise, you are very clever. 3b. If you are able to do this exercise, you must be very clever. 3c. If you were able to do this exercise, you would be very clever. (I don't myself see 'are/would...

Would you please correct the following exercises ? I/ CONDITIONAL : 1) You’re late again! If you a) (be) = ARE late again tomorrow, your pay b) (stop) = WILL BE STOPPED. OK 2) The passengers at the front of the plane were all killed, but Alice, who was sitting at the back, survived. If...

Dear teachers, Would you please correct the following exercises ? I/ CONDITIONAL : 1) You’re late again! If you a) (be) = ARE late again tomorrow, your pay b) (stop) = WILL BE STOPPED. 2) The passengers at the front of the plane were all killed, but Alice, who was sitting at the back,...

Interesting comments, JT. You are looking further down the spectrum than I. I'll suggest that in your sentence 2, you are envisioning an impossible situation... Not at all. The objective truth of the situation in #2 is irrelevant. All that matters is the impression the speaker wants...

Paco: I don't like to meddle in this kind of talks. However I feel what JTT is talking about is just a way how to use the 2nd conditionals as a polite form of advice. I think the phrase "if I were you" (if I=you) is nothing but a hypothetical protasis, no matter how the conditional is used...

Hello everyone, In working with my own people, still I am not an exception allowing myself to judge what is right or what is not right in English grammar and idiomatic expression, I felt this sentence bit awkward or strange - but it's rather my perception wrong? The sentence reads: ...

I am currently teaching an advanced class the sunjunctive in English. I have searched everywhere for rules on the subjunctive but have found nothing clear. Specifically I am looking for the rules regarding tense agreement (e.g. past subjunctive with conditionals/present subjunctive with present...

Hello Xavier, you're right of course: Communication is one of the tasks of language. The Grammar is "late": Language follows special patterns (word order, inflection, cases, conjugation, etc) - language has to follow those patterns as without them, communication wouldn't be possible. The...