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In formal writing pepole use past simple tense.But i have seen many times books and other articles includes sentenceswhich have been made of "would"...I know that "would" is used in conditional clauses.Where as i realy want to know what are the situations where i can use...

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...

both sentences contain a tense shift (or conditional shift I guess) should read: Meat is inspected by federal agents, though/although they do not inspect every animal to be slaughtered. Both sentences are fine. They really don't even have different shades of meaning. The difference...

I think it comes down to what you intended to say/convey, mixing tenses, and understanding the difference between 'will' and 'would.' If you go strictly off of your premise that there's a person seeking to buy a pen from you and you'll have the final say, then you must use...

Newbie2007 wrote: Quangtn03 wrote: Hi newbie."I wish you will have..." is a true conditional sentence. I think this is a letter so the writer have a wish for his friend.The latter is "I wish you will be happy", not "I wish be happy". He write for friend not for himself. Are you ok? Tell me what...

Quangtn03 wrote: Hi newbie."I wish you will have..." is a true conditional sentence. I think this is a letter so the writer have a wish for his friend.The latter is "I wish you will be happy", not "I wish be happy". He write for friend not for himself. Are you ok? Tell me what do you...

Quangtn03 wrote: Hi newbie."I wish you will have..." is a true conditional sentence. I think this is a letter so the writer have a wish for his friend.The latter is "I wish you will be happy", not "I wish be happy". He write for friend not for himself. Are you ok? Tell me what do you...

Anonymous wrote:the first one is the one marked "1" with a modal 'would' that expresses an event in the past, encompassing an event before an event also; and the second marking point is the one marked "2" and with the past perfect tense 'had lined up'.There is no switch in tense there. They are...

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I...

Thanks, Marius. You have been a great help. I still have 2 more questions and I would really appreciate if you could answer both of them. Which conditional type is sentence 1 using? My guess would be Type 2 because 'lied' is in past tense.But why doesn't the main clause contain either...