Unreal tenses use the past tense for present situations and the past perfect for past situations. For example: This is true for constructions like "I would rather + clause", "I wish + clause" and for the antecedent of

If they (whatever words you decide to use) can be combined, then the above construction is possible. Is this a hypothetical if clause or what? It depends on the words you choose to determine if they can be combined... Thanks

"I was told if I was not able to open my mouth to 50 cm in one week, therapy be necessary because it could become TMJ." 1) Is this a conditional clause functioning as a noun clause (within a main clause)? 2) Also,

when if means if and when if means something else Interesting point. -- What about with this sentence then? This is not a conditional then, is it? I can't see why they would be wrong. The would + base verb

What about a completely different tense that isn't accounted for in any of the conditionals? Is such a construction only permissible in informal situations: If learners will be reading this, I should fix the errors. I don't see any

Thank you, guys. When first reading about the conditionals, I thought it was clear and simple, but I now realise semantics and the subjectivity of the likelihood has a bearing on which conditional to use (between conditionals 1 and 2,

I can't see why they would be wrong. Is this still second conditional, expressing something unlikely in the furture or impossible in the present? Or do such constructions (would be) only infer one of these two time references

W ouldn't the subjunctive have been this, not that. The subjunctive would have been this, not that. In the second conditional, the main/result clause uses the 'would have' construction, implying that the result is

W ouldn't the subjunctive have been this, not that. The subjunctive would have been this, not that. In the second conditional, the main/result clause uses the 'would have' construction, implying that the result is

What I was asking is would it be possible for the construction to be correct , but yes, a whole sentence is better. It would be possible for that sequence of words to be correct. Yes. Calling that sequence "a construction" confused the