By Clauses, Present tenses

conditional

Hi, Are these all examples of the first conditional? If a if-clause is in the present tense, then any modal verbs can be used and it would still be a first conditional sentence? A zero conditional sentence is the one only states general rules and can't use modal verbs? All first...

Re: [will] optional?

It is almost redundant to say, at this point in the thread, that the use of will twice is probably best when the clauses have two different subjects.Nevertheless, if you don't mind a slightly more awkward style, violating parallelism, you can switch to present tense for the second clause...

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

The subjunctive mood forms: should selland sellare the formal ones. Sells is informal.

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

I'm not familiar with the site; but the writer may well be of BrE origin. (In BrE, you could use "sells", "should sell", or the subjunctive "sell". The last option has become more popular in the last two decades, in BrE, in contexts where "should sell"...

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

So the information at http://www.visualesl.com/pages/en/english_suggestions is incorrect. It says "Mark suggests that he sells/should sell his house" is correct.

suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

1) I suggest that he sell the car.2) I suggest that he sells the car. We know that no 1 is correct. Is no 2 also correct?

Re: Is this correct usage? What kind of clauses is this?

Thank you so much for the response. I thought participial phrases must beginw the the present tense of a verb, such as "Having too much time on his hands, Jim decided to join a book club." Can partcipial phrases just begin with an form of a verb? Thanks.

Re: subject of subordinate clause

#1 John who took my pen is here. #2 John who is wearing my jacket is here. How firm a grasp would you like to obtain? (I know I shouldn't have written that, but I couldn't resist.) The thing that works for me is to take out the the subject and the "verb" and see if it still...

Re: Modals in conditional sentences

The answer is here: Typically, when the accompanying clause is an "if" clause, the historical present tense forms go with present tense verbs, and historical past tense forms go with past tense verbs. However, "could" and "might", meaning "may"...

Re: case of subjunctive in the 'if' clause?

It's not subjunctive. It's the modal use of need. Modal need can occur in non-assertive contexts. Modals never take the s in the first person singular of the present tense the way non-modal verbs do. In that way they resemble subjunctive forms, which are also missing the s. The...