Hello Friends, I have a few queries concerning conditional clauses. Here is a sentence. If she would have agreed I might have married her.(Hypothetical past) In this sentence, what does the if- clasue ('If she would have agreed' ) denotes?

It seems both Marius and Magic have Swan's book. I just look at it to find out the model verb 'would'. However, this is a tall order for me. I am not a native English speaker. I mean there are many ways one can play with the modal verb 'would'.

What books would you recommend to learn more about the modal verbs? I've written here, on alt.english.usage and on uk.culture.language.english; I've read tons of messages in the archive of this newsgroup (particularly a thread of 137