4. Finally, is there any possibility of using neither... nor in the original sentence? The answer is 'yes' for some reasons. The first one is language change, whereby structures shift in meaning over a certain time period, allowing for

Dear friend, I suppose that I have only recently embarked on the march towards reaching the level of an expert whose opinion could be taken for 'expertise'. However, being guided by the knowledge gained from a number of authoritative

Hello everyone, I wish it would stop raining – I know ‘wish’ and ‘would’ are the key to the construction - but I don’t know what the tense is… Subject + wish + it (what is it?)+ would (modal auxiliary verb) + verb + gerund Hi, You

Which is correct?: - if we had looked, we would had seen or - if we had looked, we would have seen I still have trouble with these constructions, and, sadly, I still don't get it. Thank you.

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

I understand that this sentence is difficult, possibly even tortured. Were I to publish it, I would probably rewrite it to something like: " played on rock radio. I believe rock radio would not have played it if the song had been performed

Fair enough. What I was asking is would it be possible for the construction to be correct , but yes, a whole sentence is better. " played on rock radio, which it probably would not have had it been a soul song performed by a heavy-set black

Dear teachers, In the following sentence, I think the third conditional is used. If I would have known about the team tryouts, I would have signed up for them. Why, then, the "would have" construction is used in the

From the book, I learned that there are 5 If ... Then patterns. 1. If present, then present 2. If present, then can/may 3. If present, then future 4. If hypothetical subjunctive, then conditional If pete ATE pizza tomorrow, THEN he WOULD

1) What connotation would "will" in impart to you? I would just say , but there should be some subtlety that brings about. These are said to a man who insists that he stay up in an attic. If you will come down here, we can