By Idioms, Modals

Are they wrong since the modal usages lack the fundamental conditional uses of the modals 'would' and 'could'? Not sure what you're asking. The correct sequence of tenses applies to conditionals as well as to non-conditionals. 1. We are all watching in a sort of stunned...

They certainly seem correct to me. Perhaps it's the idiom happen to that's bothering you.If you happen to have money = If, by chance, it turns out that you have money CJ

Have to is a semi-auxiliary (a modal idiom) and be is a bare infinitive object/verb complement.I have to go.Do you really have to?

<The modal idiom to be to is used to express requirement, just like to have to > Not really, Incho. That's "be to", and your example is not the same.

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Marius Hancu wrote: Inchoateknowledge wrote: The modal idiom to be to is used to express requirement, just like to have to Not in such contexts, IMO, not with "were." Hi Marius, why not? Past tense, conditional mood.IMO, to be to may (i.e. not always) describe...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Marius Hancu wrote: Inchoateknowledge wrote: The modal idiom to be to is used to express requirement, just like to have to Not in such contexts, IMO, not with "were." Hi Marius, why not? Past tense, conditional mood. were to is a past tense form of to be...

Marius Hancu wrote: Inchoateknowledge wrote: The modal idiom to be to is used to express requirement, just like to have to Not in such contexts, IMO, not with "were." Hi Marius, why not? Past tense, conditional mood.

Inchoateknowledge wrote: The modal idiom to be to is used to express requirement, just like to have to Not in such contexts, IMO, not with "were."

I would say very subtle The modal idiom to be to is used to express requirement, just like to have to

Others : Had Better, be Supposed to, be Used to, be Accustomed to etc. others = modal idioms "Why we call semi-modals and others instead of saying all of them modal" because they are intermediate between auxiliaries and main verbs. I daren't jump -- You mustn't jump I do not...