In Nouns^x, Conditionals^x

If you mean the present: Yesterday I drank too much vodka. I would feel much better (now) if it had been wine. As to your second sentence, "would had been" is certainly wrong, while your #1 requires a context to decide whether it is correct. It might be some kind of mixed conditional, like: I...

Hi Nona, Nona The Brit wrote:team for plural - you may not like it personally but it is accepted as grammatically correct.Accepted by whom? Can you provide a citation?A Google search returns: "team is" 12.4 million; "team are" 1.2 million; that's more than 10:1 in favour of the singular. Even...

What I would do is use the different forms of 'and' in examples from a book. In fact, I would start with #1 and work my way through the defined meaning of 'and'. Using the examples you find you can display how the word and is very versatile.This is from dictionary.com:1.( . used to connect...

Hi PuccaYou can say something such as "There were millions of dollars lost." But, if you want to say or write a specific number, then the words hundred, thousand, million, billion, etc. are not used as a plural noun:300 = three hundred4000 = four thousand50,000 = fifty thousand20,000,000 =...

Hi Marcelle, Marcelle wrote:I would say # 2 and 4 are the correct ones, 'as if' implies an unreal state, therefore you should use a past tense (refer to 2nd and 3rd conditionals) Yeah, but present tenses are fine too, if not better on second thought. Normally a noun is used after 'like' and...

I would say # 2 and 4 are the correct ones, 'as if' implies an unreal state, therefore you should use a past tense (refer to 2nd and 3rd conditionals) Normally a noun is used after 'like', and not a clause (a sentence), but i guess it can be said and it would be informal or colloquial English

1. would is the modal used for the consequent clause of a conditional structure. If that suit were navy blue, I would buy it. If that suit were black with gray pin stripes, I would like it better. If it were gray, I would like that suit better. The condition (if-clause) is implicit - not...

No, I wouldn't say that you should use the past perfect. It doesn't seem necessary at all. The first went is a backshift for the if clause, so it's in present time, just like the final noun clause (what it's like). Using the past perfect in the noun clause (what he went through) would seem to...

If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers.Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement rather than object. shoot at is a prepositional verb with complement soldier. (I think you meant If I...

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