Hi, is it true that some certain verbs should always be followed by "should"? If so, how many on the list? No.

Hello, I'd use the second type of conditional: «If this book were to describe all the great things that you have done, it would be the tallest book in the world.» Anton

I do hear it a lot in late 40s and early 50s R&B and Blues music, for that is what I like to listen to. It is all performed by black singers.

Then your sentence says: Hundreds of slave-catching expeditions followed this (first) one. And they were equally, if not more, cruel. Anton

Hello, Angliholic As for grammar mistakes: 1. If you have practice the above daily... 2. You' d ll live a carefree life! Also I will advice you to get rid of the repetition of well in the end of the third and fourth lines. Anton

Hello, tifacat The preceding statement (or remark), referred to in your sentence by "it", applies to hundreds of people in the following generations. Let us know if it is still recondite to you. A wider context might help us to explain

Thank you for the feedback, I, too, tried to interpret it as an imperative form but failed. To me it is not clear at all how this conclusion follows from the sentence's structure. Below I have condensed it to make the overall structure

Why isn't there a 'the' in front of chance? Can I add it to the sentence? In this form, "chance" is already modified by "the" + "better", so no. But in the following rewrite "the" is necessary:

Hello, everybody In the following extract I have included the end of the preceding sentence to make the next one clearer: «...he was surely conscious, inexplicably conscious of some presence. Ay, surely; to every room and corner of the house his

Thank you for the feedback, CalifJim. Everybody translates a little differently. While there are probably quite a few other ways this could be said, I see nothing wrong with the choices you made. Yes, but I am trying to keep it close