I think present particple clauses would work in certain contexts with similar constructs, but in the plane crash scenario, I would personally prefer a parallel past tense construct "crashed and casued". Using particple clause (causing

Why did you choose 'was' for the second verb? The time sequence in this sentence is blurred by the unusual usage of the Past Perfect anyway and I felt there was no need to cloud it even more with another (this time usual) Past Perfect

The New York Public Library's Writer's Guide to Style and Usage has this important note on the subjunctive: "The words if, as if , or as though do not always signal the subjunctive mood. If the information in such a clause points out

Hi Mr. Wordy, Appreciate your comments... My particular interest on this discussion is to settle my own doubts in the correct usage of the subjunctives. I was taught that when we use verbs of mandative nature, the verb following the

The subjunctive doesn't exist in only the present tense of if clauses. All other present tense subjunctive constructions use the subjunctive. Correct? I don't understand "present tense subjunctive constructions". If there is such

The problem you are having is that the felt goes with she and the convicted goes with her son , and so you can not say She felt convicted by the media... As a result you have to put her son into a subordinate something (clause, whatever) to keep

L'intronato schrieb: But two doubts remain about first subjunctive in english. 1) Is it used only in "that-clauses"? 2) Doesn't it have ... police, I had suggested he go to see a lawyer" (in this case is "handed hslf

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conditional.htm *That* whole page is about conditionals. Even though your sentence had an "if" in it, it isn't a conditional. Certainly it isn't. The reason I went there it is that the