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Re: tense dilemma

.I'm sorry, but your conglomeration of poorly structured example sentences and confused numbers makes it unclear to me what you are asking. Nor are your following questions particularly lucid. I can tell you that 'would fail' is conditional 2, which is a present form.Perhaps if you...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 26 days ago Tenses Numbers Conditionals
Re: If I had listened to you

The condition is that the if clause may be fulfilled. In your sentences it is already impossible to fulfil the if clause making the sentences purely hypothesis. This is known as a type III conditional and is formed thus: if + past perfect + would + have + past participle. A conditional formed...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Huevos 37 days ago Grammar Clauses Numbers Past perfect Simple past Conditionals
Re: Follow-up to "Nagging conditional problem"

This is no reflection on Marius at all, but realize that titles like Guru are based entirely on the number of posts a person has contributed to the forum. When you reach the correct number of posts (I forget what it is), you too will be a Guru.CJ

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 44 days ago Numbers Conditionals
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Hi, Two questions, if I may. 1. Is this a correct conditional? Note that the priests had to look after their own fellowship with God if they were to minister to others. To follow what I call "traditional patterns", it seems logical to write it as: Note that the priests would have...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 52 days ago Clauses Numbers Modals Conditionals
Re: conditional

Read: http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.htmlthose pages show you quite clearly the tenses and the real/unreal aspect of it.Don't get stuck in numbers (type 1, etc), think about correctness and what you want to express.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 72 days ago Numbers Tenses Conditionals
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Hi, I think Mr. M said that the following is a type 1 conditional. According to a general explanation, it was noted that in 1st conditional, if is ued to speculate about the future consequence of some event. 1.Does the if-clause here contain any future in it? if I have the authority to decide...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 72 days ago Clauses Numbers Conditionals

Hi, I'm writing a research work and now I have to translate key words documentation to English. Could you please help me and correct possible mistakes below? I'm in a little hurry. Thanks in advance. Nowadays there are greater and greater desires for faster, more reliable,...

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Re: Passport files of candidates breached

Way, way, way too much in one post! Maybe next time you could split these into separate posts? Your way is certainly also a very good way to state that fact. Both are correct.CJ

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 119 days ago Plurals Dates Numbers Conditionals
Re: subjunctive and 2nd conditional

, (then) ... would have ... UNREAL, COUNTERFACTUAL *The past is sometimes called the past subjunctive in this position. Only the verb to be has a special form (were in all persons and numbers) in this position.Other combinations of tenses in these kinds of if patterns have no...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 125 days ago Verbs Tenses Clauses Numbers Past perfect Subjunctives Conditionals Mixed conditionals
Re: Condtitional tense

Hi AvangiTo me, the word 'if' is used like 'whenever' in your sentence, and the word 'will' is used to indicate a habitual or repeated action (i.e. in that sentence, you are saying it is not your habit to wonder about things such as closed doors while you are on vacation)....

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Yankee 139 days ago Tenses Numbers Past tenses Present perfect Present tenses Conditionals Simple past Simple present Present continuous

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