By Subjunctives, Clauses

"If you are a professional singer, I'm Pavarotti." I didn't know my singing was so terrible! ~chuckles~ Your sentence is grammatically correct, and it makes perfect sense as well. To me, it is also the best choice in the context you mentioned. Your second sentence is also grammatically...

You are welcome, Pastel. I think you got the meaning of my post, yes. But there's a strange mix of grammatical terminology in your post! (Have I mentioned lately that you sometimes drive me crazy? ~L~) Let's take the sentence "If he ate more, he would gain weight." We agree that it is a...

Hello, Pastel. I'll try to answer your questions; let me know if you need clarification? Your first question: A: "Has he gained weight?" B: "He would gain weight, but he _____ much." (1)doesn't eat (2)didn't eat Without a context, with the short exchange as it is, the right answer is 1). B...

A: "Has he gained weight?" B: "He would gain weight, but he _____ much." (1)doesn't eat (2)didn't eat The asnwer is (1). But I chose (2) because I think it is the first condition. In true, he doesn't eat much. So the clause following 'but' should be in subjuntive mood.

Thank you, Dave. I'm not sure I know the right answers to all your questions, but I'll try. I wouldn't say that the English language does not have a "true" subjunctive mood. Perhaps it's only that it is not so 'developed', so to speak, as, say, the indicative mood, in the sense that it does not...

I've posted this in another thread: would + base form of verb = simple conditional (would go) would + have + past participle = perfect conditional (would have gone) Both are usually seen in conditional sentences Types II and III. Type II: "If it started to rain now, I would stay at home." Type...

Hello, Dave would + base form of verb = simple conditional would + have + past participle = perfect conditional I don't know those by any other names, but of course it is probable that there may be authors who may give those different names. In my mother tongue, the "conditional" used to be...

Bubu, You said: "For example it is possible to say 'i think It's my duty to advice him to look up words in a dictionary. I have done my duty and i have adviced him. Now it's up to him. If he look up, he look up if he don't, he don't.'" Then, in your next post, you mentioned the subjunctive...

1) The sentence, "What kind of world would exist today if the attempts to make antibiotics had not succeded?" uses the past perfect tense; i.e., "...attempts had suceeded." The past perfect indicates actions completed by a specific time in the past. The time of the successful creation of...

Problems with the subjunctive, for non-native speakers of English, may arise because English doesn't have a subjunctive mood 'proper', so to speak, so it has to 'borrow' verb forms that usually belong to the indicative mood. The "subjunctive WERE", as Randolph Quirk calls it, is hypothetical in...