By Prepositions, Conditionals

Thank you. You wrote:If the preposition is in the middle of the sentence, 'whom' would be necessary. To me using the word "seem" in a "would" clause seems very peculiar. Omiting the word "would" from the "would" clause also seems peculiar.To me,...

Hi,If you have an if-clause like the one below, does it have to be unreal and not real or some-extent doubtful?I used/wrote this sentence to ask a question:If the preposition was in the middle of the sentence, 'whom' seemed to be needed. I used this sentence as sort of the reverse of the...

«If you hadn't stopped at the grocery store, we wouldn't have missed our flight and would be in Italy now (my preference - 2nd conditional), would have arrived in Italy now( 3rd) , would have been in Italy (3rd I guess but somehow lacking something :) )» All correct except the last...

Thanks Ant for your reply. I get it now. REgarding the last point, I would have been in the hospital is, I think, a third conditional For example, If you hadn't stopped at the grocery store, we wouldn't have missed our flight and would be in Italy now (my preference - 2nd conditional),...

1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...

Colombo wrote:I'm trying to translate my CV into English, but I'm finding a lot of difficulties. Apart from the overall chronic style of the result, there are certain things that I find I don't know how to say. I'm copying a list here, in case someone can lend me a hand (for which I'd be...

<<Do we have to use the definite article "the" for each tense or not? >> To be very strict about it, yes, but we frequently write telegraphically and leave out the the, especially on this site, where we use the names of the tenses so often. <<1.In the use of the Present...

1-... You yourself might have experienced those frustrating long hours sitting in a clumsy chair with your reading material on the desk that ..... Yourself is unnecessary here. 2-Let us honestly ask ourselves how effective those long hours were?... the place of honestly doesn't sound...

1. "Let's move at that specific time. They will have left." (context: you don't want to find yourself in the same room as some other people.) Do you mean "Let's GO then"? Let's go at 8. They will have left by then.2. What are the correct sentences to say "she looks at nothing": "She stares into...

User_gary wrote: It can help me understand the first conditional statements. It can help me to understand the first conditional statements. Is this preposition `to' necessary for this sentence? It's o.k., but not necessary.