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Hello Friends, I have a few queries concerning conditional clauses. Here is a sentence. If she would have agreed I might have married her.(Hypothetical past) In this sentence, what does the if- clasue ('If she would have agreed' ) denotes? Does it denote willingness(volition) of the...

Basically, the reactor Now, don't tear your hair out and start screaming, but the second of the two series above is sometimes taken to mean the same as the first series! -- that is, taken to refer to what was then the future instead of what was then the past. My recommendation, if...

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...

One such grammatical distinction causing much confusion is the use of the modal auxiliaries ‘may’ and ‘might’. When used in the present tense, the two modals are almost transposable, as the difference between the two is merely a very small degree of certainty. However, it has become common...

Is "am to" (be to) not used in the US then? It's used, but it's more often found in the written form than in the spoken form. For me, there is a difference between "am to" and "am going to" there. Right. Sometimes we do substitute going to , though. "Am to" has the feeling of...

Paco2004 wrote: Hello Anon I'm sorry but I have to say all of your sentences sound a bit weird. The conjunction "No matter how" is usually followed by an indicative (non-modal) predication. #4 is wrong because of tense mismatch between the concessive and main clauses. (EX) No matter how...

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...

Hellow Zewu I'm an English learner from Japan. I am afraid I don't know much about English enough to answer such questions as those you are asking. But allow me to put my two cents worth. First of all, let me define some grammatical terms. In English, people usually say 'subjunctive mood'...

Hello Jim Thank you for your kind comments. To me every modal is difficult to grasp its exact meanings. As for 'will'/'would', I think they are also used as 'indicative' and 'subjunctive'. (1) neutral future (be about to: be destined to) My guess will be wrong. My guess would be...

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