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I don't really know exactly why I said "wrong" in one place and "awkward" in another! Your question in the other thread seemed to focus on mixed conditionals, and I didn't want to leave you with the impression that all mixed conditionals are wrong. Maybe that's...

Thank you. I think my version is called a mixed condtionl with present-time implications, whereas Mr. M's correctional effort could be called a type 3 conditional.My original writing, I believe, dealt with a person about to graduate from middle schoo. I think I wrote how wonderful it was,...

It's fine. It's just a mixed conditional. It is stating with certainty that he will submit to the conditional clause if the "if" clause is fulfilled. In the "if" clause though "would" is used to show a lower possibility or lack of belief that the clause will...

Thank you so much, Marius and Mr. Wordy. I think I checked out the mixed conditional section of the website you gave but I didn't see anything in the present tense though. Also I came up with this. Is this a mixed conditional too? If that is the case, wouldn't it make more sense to...

>I thihk the modal 'could' and possibly 'would' have some differing uses.could: about ability, would: about willingnessThe first is a mixed conditional, similar to what you can find on this page:http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/mixedconditional.htmlThis is one of the...

Jean-Francois, the only "trick" to reported speech is that sometimes the tense shifts back. It doesn't have to if the essential truth of the issue is still true, but it's never wrong to shift it back either. You can use the "that" - you are inconsistent in using...

The conditional is given by the if/should part in blue. That part is the condition, irrespective of what tenses you're using in it. Plainly speaking, I don't think you understand the meaning of would and in what circumstances it should be used. The if/should used in the subordinate...

, (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...

Hi Manisha,When we would like to relate a failure in the past to an ongoing activity that is still considered unfulfilled today, we can use a mixed conditional statement in which one relates a present unreal condition (i.e. verb in the simple past - TYPE II conditional ) to a past unreal /...

will that violate the conditional structure? It just creates a "mixed conditional". CJ