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Re: Exam prepartion CAE Use of English Part 5

Hi, I'm not sure everybody here understands what type of exercise you're referring to. I assume you are talking about the new format of the CAE, which will be introduced starting from December 2008, so I'm posting an excerpt from the CAE handbook for teachers about part 5 (key word...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Tanit 48 days ago Grammar, Dates, Tenses, Numbers, Past Simple, Conditionals, Contractions
Re: Some very basic grammar questions

They are all correct. For lengthier discussions with lots of examples of the use of the past perfect tense after before , see Re: before past perfect tense , past tense and Re: Past Simple or Past Perfect . This is a common pattern for expressing "interruptive relationships" between...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 75 days ago Grammar, Tenses, Clauses, Numbers, Past Perfect, Universities, Subjunctives, Conditionals
Re: tense dilemma

. I'm sorry, but your conglomeration of poorly structured example sentences and confused numbers makes it unclear to me what you are asking. Nor are your following questions particularly lucid. I can tell you that 'would fail' is conditional 2, which is a present form. Perhaps if you...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 163 days ago Tenses, Numbers, Conditionals
Re: conditional

Read: http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html those pages show you quite clearly the tenses and the real/unreal aspect of it. Don't get stuck in numbers (type 1, etc), think about correctness and what you want to express.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 209 days ago Numbers, Tenses, Conditionals
Re: subjunctive and 2nd conditional

, (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...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 262 days ago Verbs, Tenses, Clauses, Numbers, Past Perfect, Subjunctives, Conditionals, Mixed Conditionals
Re: Condtitional tense

Hi Avangi To me, the word ' if ' is used like ' whenever ' in your sentence, and the word ' will ' is used to indicate a habitual or repeated action (i.e. in that sentence, you are saying it is not your habit to wonder about things such as closed doors while you are on...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Yankee 276 days ago Tenses, Numbers, Past Tenses, Present Perfect, Present Tenses, Conditionals, Simple Past, Simple Present, Present Continuous
confused about 'would'

I know 'would' carries many meanings. My problem is sometimes I find it difficult to tell which meaning the speaker uses. I think I understand its hypothetical usage, and in some contexts, its politeness usage. Below is a post that has several woulds I have trouble interpreting. I also...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by New2grammar 277 days ago Conversations, Tenses, Clauses, Numbers, Present Tenses, Expressions, Conditionals, Idioms, Indirect Questions, Direct Questions
Re: if-clause (future)

Welkins2139 wrote: " if clauses " ( also called adverb clause of condition) present possible condition. The main clause express results. 1. If you study in a foreign country , what do you need to do? a present tense, not a future tense, is used in an if clause, even though the verb in the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Avangi 352 days ago Verbs, Tenses, Clauses, Numbers, Adverbs, Present Tenses, Conditionals
Re: would have +past participle if +past perfect/simple past(?)

This situation is a little different than your type III conditional formula is intended for. The speaker is not in Ian's position, so the phrase is a "condition contrary to fact". In that situation a formal speaker or writer would use the subjunctive mood of the verb rather than indicative or...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Spides 1 yr 38 days ago Verbs, Tenses, Numbers, Past Perfect, Simple Past, Subjunctives, Past Tenses, Conditionals

Yoong Liat wrote: Hi Goodman You wrote: I have been labeled and called by many descriptions, hinted being “Ignorant” is the first ... I'm not hinting that you're ignorant. I say that if a learner tells me "informal" means "wrong", I'll understand that he says so because he is ignorant. ...

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