In Conditionals^x, Modals^x

Sorry, I forgot to ask you this:Can you tell me how does this use of the modal "would" work: the future of the past? I am trying very hard to understand the whole point but it is not easy.I think you said "Request" is a subcategory of the conditional use of "would",...

Thank you. Your explanation makes much sense, yet demands more time to go over.You said: Your examples (below) are all cases of the conditional usage with one or more implicit conditions. The use of would is the signal that the fulfillment of the condition(s) is not currently in effect or not...

I think the basic functions of would are the habitual past, the future of the past, and the conditional.Requests (or asking permission) is a subcategory of the conditional use. Semantically, these are conditionals. Pragmatically, they can be requests if framed as questions.Both are...

Hi,How could a person use the modal "would" correctly? I think the uses of it can be said to be in the categories of "request", "invitation", "conditional" and others. What I have most trouble is the conditional use of the modal "would". Would you...

Hi,I felt C could have been the right answer. The reason (I feel it could be faulty) is that if the situation involves a son and a father and the son happens to be new to the city and doesn't know where is where, and upon coming back somehow after a walkabout (?), his father says this.one...

You will see it and hear it from time to time, but the canonical form is with the if-clause in the past, as Mr. M. has illustrated above.CJ

Hi,Please tell me if we could have the modal 'would' after an if-clause in present tense.If you make some cookies, I should/would be happy/delighted.

>>It is not difficult at all for me to use conditional structures (= modal verbs) in polite requests, like in "Could you lend me 1,000 dollars?", because very similar structures are used the same way in Italian too. <<And do they omit articles in Italian? "Could you...

I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

Thank you so much. This is your response in a thread named "conditional."You said:You have another post on nearly the same subject. See my answer there. They are mixed conditionals, and they are very awkward. If I am not mistaken, you seem to have said the examples given there are...