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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...

Hi, everyone. I'm studying conditional senteces recently. But I could hardly tell the difference between each other. I mean a nuance. Here are 3 sentences. Please let me know the nuance. a) If you had graduated from A university, you would've gotten a better job.b) If you had graduated from A...

1) Do May / Might NOT (like CANNOT) express an interdiction = must not ? ex: ? CJ

Thank you very much, CJ, for your answers! Some more questions if you wouldn't mind: 1) Do May / Might NOT (like CANNOT) express an interdiction = must not ? ex: ? 2) Mrs James is in hospital and HASN’T BEEN ALLOWED TO have (and NOT “could have”) a cigarette after her meals. (correct ?) 3)...

Hello, Jim I've been away from the boards lately. I'm not sure you're still interested in my response, but here it goes: 1. I'm afraid I can't tell how often verbs like "wish" are used in the mandative subjunctive. It seems they are used, though, according to my books. Here are a few...