In Numbers^x, Past tenses^x, Difference between^x

There is no difference between may and might worth agonizing about. may sounds a bit more formal to my ear. And may cannot be used where a past tense is required in tense matching: I knew I might be late . Not I knew I may be late . In other situations, both are used the same way. Use the...

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...

What is the difference between these two: 1. If you added the wrong number, it still worked. (What does this sentence mean compared to #2?) 2. If you added the wrong number, it would still work. (With the context stated in my first post, is 'would' past tense here?) Thanks.