By Mixed conditionals, Subjunctives

, (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 Jack,my try:I would not put myself in a position where I jeopardized the people working for me, or those for whom I worked, for the sake of vanity.I don't know the exact terms to refer to those words. Let's say those two "past tenses" are kind of like two "subjunctives" or "unreality past...

I'd agree with CJ about choices in exam questions. I'd also agree that this sentence isn't counterfactual: 1. "If you were buying a car, you would have considered its performance ..." The "were" here isn't subjunctive; if we put it into the 3rd person singular, we get: 2. "If he was buying...

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,...

Japan wrote: Hello guys I have one question long about ' I could have danced all night' in 'My Fair Lady'. It has a passage of "I only know when he began to dance with me, I could have danced all night." Is that a third-condition? If so, I think the conditional clause should be "he had begun...

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Hello Jack 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?) Yes, mixed: somewhere between — a) What if there's a fire - what'll you do? (immediate: you want to convey the fact that...

Hello Hela 1“Altogether, and so is the house in Portman Square. There never was anything more sad or desolate. You a) would find a) is the mixed conditional possible here or not ? = the speaker is not sure that Mr Finn is going to succeed but if ever this happened he is sure of Mrs Kennedy’s...

Hello guys The description of OED suggests 'as if' was simple 'as' in its original use. The sense of supposition seems to have been expressed by the use of the subjunctive mood and 'if' appears to have been inserted in later stages as a sign to make sure the subjunctiveness (=the sense of...

1. I could have made half a grand if they had got it in stock. (Why do I need 'had had got'? #2 is correct?) ***** IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ ***** {JJT's responses marked off by ++ ... ++} ****** ++ Let's drop , Jack, as there are differences between the BrE and AmE/CdE that will needlessly...