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Hi,I'm not sure about the expression, "content that is relevant." I try to make all my content relevant, but sometimes fail.Often, the status of a condition or situation as to permanance or on-going-ness is common knowledge, or obvious, and sometimes it's not known to the...

It's not subjunctive. It's the modal use of need. Modal need can occur in non-assertive contexts. Modals never take the s in the first person singular of the present tense the way non-modal verbs do. In that way they resemble subjunctive forms, which are also missing the s. The...

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...

The past tense is used for more than just indicating past time. It's used in an if-clause that goes with a would-clause. This is the general rule. That said, the formulas Would you mind if I ...? Would it bother you if I ... ? and similar expressions are special cases where, informally,...

Hi, So what if we're a little late? I wanted to know what is the tense of this sentence?//???? So what . . . ? is an idiomatic expression meaning roughly Does it matter . . . ? What does it matter . . . ? Thus, it's a present tense statement, because the main clause is present tense. It...

Let's spread out the issue a little bit: ____ O ____ Type 2. Basic forms. a. If we caught the 10 o'clock train, we would (could, might, etc.) get there by lunch-time. b. If I came into a fortune, I would give up smoking. c. If I knew how it worked, I could tell...

This gives me strength to face the busy day lies ahead.This is not correct. The relative pronoun that (or which) cannot be omitted when it is the subject of its clause. It has to be "busy day that lies ahead". However, if the relative pronoun subject is followed by a form of the verb to...

Hello DiamondThanks for the tries. You are wise to compare English and your mother tongue. I believe we all humans share common concepts about time relation between events. So the usage of our own languages would be of great help to the studies of the time-relational expressions in English.1A -...