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CGEL And should is not used at all with past time meaning Introduction to the Grammar of English one of the series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics by Rodney Huddleston The past tense of shall is should and this occurs as the counterpart of shall in the backshifting and unreal condition...

2 On Wednesday I tell CJ what I said on Tuesday The possibility started yesterday It therefore started in the past Two major problems with your theory Mr P 1 The possibility started yesterday It therefore started in the past And what it started with was a may designating a small to a good chance...

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1 2003 GWB The Iraqis are going to hold elections in Iraq in January 2005 Mr P In 1 GWB situates the intention in the present JTT No it doesn t Mr P GWB s speech clearly situates the intention in the future January 2005 to be exact You have mistaken the time of speaking and the effect of that...

Mr Pedantic wrote The OED s may might entry takes us back to Fortiter s thread 1 If that were true he would be wearing a nasturtium in his buttonhole 2 If that was true why wasn t he wearing a nasturtium in his buttonhole If we were to apply the logic of earlier posts in this thread were and was...

Supposing for the sake of argument that can would might may will should could are all tenseless what then do we call the relationship between can and could between will and would if we think there is any whatsoever Because of the opening supposition we cannot say that the relationship is one of...

Su s post I always wonder some thing in English grammar For instance the sentence I drive him I is the subject Him is the object Yet their position have told us this too Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing For if the sentences of I him drive drive I him drive him I him...

I always wonder some thing in English grammar For instance the sentence I drive him I is the subject Him is the object Yet their position have told us this too Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing For if the sentences of I him drive drive I him drive him I him drive I...

Fortitier Here I am againg just to thank Just The Truth and tell him I learnt something new other Italian people don t know In many Italian books on English you can read that might is the conditional irregular form of may such as could is of can I hope this still is true at least JT No it isn t...

I learned it the same way pieanne did and all my grammar books also say that just is a signal word for perfect tenses at least in British English Americn English tends to use just with the Simple Past Preterite btw is applicable to English as well as for every Germanic language to refer to the...