By Conditionals, Learning English

Hi,... and somebody says it's subjunctive. See also:http://www.englishforums.com/English/ChangingTenses/dqcdx/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/WhichSentencesAreCorrect/zjbhp/post.htm

Thank you, Mr. M and Marius. Can anyone shed some light on what Roger Woodham is saying here to a question about a third conditional in BBC LEARNING ENGLISH? Now, Elena, as well as talking about things that didn't happen, we also use the third conditional to talk about things that did...

Anonymous wrote: Hello! I've got a question about a word usage. Hope someboy to help me. There would be a big tree near the pond. ----1 This is the beginning of a conditional sentence, so an if-clause is necessary. A grammar test book says that the above sentence is wrong. It should...

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Hello MrP In the Japanese conditionals, we change the apodosis' expressions according to conditionals' reality. In the case the conditional is known to be rather unreal, we use an expression similar to English modal constructs in the apodosis, and when we judge neutrally about the possibility of...

Here's another way of looking at it, Jack. As you say in another place, native speakers use mixed conditionals all the time. In speech, for instance, speakers often change conditional types in mid sentence – not because they want to express a subtle distinction, but because speech is by its...

Hi all, I'm learning English as a foreing language and there's a subject that I haven't found information about. Our teacher explained us the subject of inversion in conditional sentences with 'had', 'were' or 'should' verbs. But I've seen that in some cases they use 'had...but' and another...