"He walked as fast as the undergrowth and snowdrifts would allow " What is the justification for the conditional in the second half of the sentence? Tough question. In some ways, it is not really a conditional, but an expression of

Hello everyone, I wish it would stop raining – I know ‘wish’ and ‘would’ are the key to the construction - but I don’t know what the tense is… Subject + wish + it (what is it?)+ would (modal auxiliary verb) + verb + gerund Hi, You

I just want to point out the word "could" is indicative of the subjunctive mood Modal verbs don't have tenses and moods in the way that other verbs do. could certainly acts like a past subjunctive in If I could help you, I would.

Why should we use 'would' ,'could' in the subjunctive mood and in the future tense? would and could , along with several other verbs, are called modal verbs. The modal verbs don't really have tenses, so you can't really use

Hi pleasehelp In your sentence, "have been" is what is known as a perfect infinitive . There are some other threads here that discuss perfect infinitives. Here are a few of them:

You seemed to be having a lot of problems with the modals. We like to help you but I think you need to do some research and studying on your own on the modals. Many learners are confused by the past tense concept with the modals and also the

You seemed to be having a lot of problems with the modals. We like to help you but I think you need to do some research and studying on your own on the modals. Many learners are confused by the past tense concept with the modals and also the

Hi, Here are the ones that I would correct (and I hope I haven't made any mistakes, but if I have somebody will fix them, don't worry! ): 1. If I knew where he lived, I’ d visit him. 1- second 3. If I hadn’t picked up Martin’s

we would had have seen After a modal verb, the only form of the verb have that is possible is have itself -- never has or had or having . would is a modal verb, so only have can follow it. Think of the modal expressions as these and ONLY these:

Hi. Thank you so much. If I am not mistaken the two sentences that you corrected are representative of first conditional sentences. Could we have use the modal verb "should" in first conditional sentences like this (borrowing the