I know there are variations depending on the context and I know which they are because in my first language there's an equal case with that very word. Though the task here was simlpy to write the synonym for the word immediately regardless of

Well, I am happy for you that your effort to petition for a review by anothr professor was a successful one. Judging from what you have posted, I believe that it really would be an injustice fro your professor to keep you out of the contest. Now

There is not enough context to determine that. As an isolated sentence, the native speaker's first impression is more likely to be that it is an implied second conditional, but there are contexts in which it just might be taken to be a future

No two sentences are stylistically equal, since there is a contextual style within which each must fit. I'd call your second sentence slightly more formal or literary.

1-- With no further context it is present, the polite form in common use. The past habitual is possible but much less common. 2-- Past habitual... unless it is in a conditional sentence. Supplying short clauses out of context is of questionable

1. Yes. I would have liked to see the concert but I didn't want to go alone. 2. There's no way of telling whether the sentence refers to the past or the future. So it could be a future in the past sentence but we can't be sure

Thanks! But I'm not sure such simplifications are always possible. In fact, I'm pretty sure they are NOT always possible, but it might be difficult to know when and why. I am certain that had the Chinese not been in the room, we would

In the US, "family" is considered a single entity. Thus "is" is the correct verb. My family is coming for dinner tonight- That's will be a typical usage. The sentences in questions are no way "conditional".

Well, as I said in the previous post, when you dig deep into the conditionals, it can get messy. I have no comment on those sentences which you called similar. As the name suggests, "conditional" is context and situation dependent. What

If we want to dig deep into the conditionals and subjunctives, they can get confusing and messy. But focusing on the 3 types of conditional alone, both sentences do not have the right mixes in their elements to be qualified as conditionals as they