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There is always more trouble with the verb to be in conditional structures, in my opinion, so yes, it is very wrong.CJ

Ruslana wrote: Hope this will help you: First conditional Second conditional Third conditional Thank you very much I understood three conditional. I have one more doubt. What is mixed conditional? I read about `mixed conditional' somewhere else in the forum. But I didn't...

Thanks for your reply, MrP. 1. I would call it an exclamatory conditional. The main clause is left unspoken, but we can usually infer it, e.g. "if only she would contact me, I would be very happy". Ok, it’s a conditional with an unexpressed result but still a ‘conditional’ right? In this case,...

I'm not sure that A is a mixed conditional. We can say: 1. If you finish your homework, you can go out with me. 2. If you finished your homework, you could go out with me. 3. If you finish your homework, you could go out with me. In #2, the 'finished' and 'could' both distance the proposal,...

Are these correct? What do they mean? 1. What if there is a fire, what would you do? (I hear a lot of people that use 'is' with 'would', is that correct? If it is correct, is it a mixed conditional?) 2. What if there is a fire, what will you do? 3. What if there is a fire, what are you going to...

Jack wrote: (So this is wrong? Not everybody follows the prescriptions?) JTT: Nobody, nobody follows the prescriptions, Jack. Prescriptions are not about English. They are/were foolish misguided notions of how language works. Read the following carefully, maybe two or three...

Would you please tell us now the difference between 2) and 3) , then 3) and 4) ? (2) If that kind of tsunami should come to Japan tomorrow, Tokyo will be devastated. (3) If that kind of tsunami should come to Japan tomorrow, Tokyo would be devastated. (4) If that kind of tsunami were to come...