You need grammar. That's why we study it. We have to study grammar in order to replace our native kinds of sentences with the sentence structures of the target language. Grammar isn't studied to make teachers seem clever, though plenty of people

Are you serious? Are you placing an advert? Ultra-capitalism is turning higher education into a pile of monkey's doo-dah, along with doing the same to all the other aspects of creation. Does that answer your musings?

If the CELTA program is anything like the Trinity one (and it is supposed to be), they introduce all kinds of methods that they do not advocate, so long as they tend towards the left field. What they advocate, in the end, is games + headway.

I got the impression that people were arguing that a simple past/future mix could not occur, for example. That kind of thing is outside the usual 0/1/2/3 stuff, and seen as a mixed conditional, isn't it? The mixture of real/unreal is another

"If I left/If I have left" could both occur in my example. In either case the notes might be under a pile of exam papers in my office.

Oh dear. I can't find my notes. If I left my notes on the bus, then I won't be able to tell you master moderators of the universe about all the various mixed conditionals that can crop up............

Understandable sentiments. However, is this advanced moderator talk?

How about "I'll do it for you". Even further from the supposed core.

Since you usually so much dislike finding the core meaning of "will" to be simple future, Milky, why do you prefer to find it in something that is given in our beloved textbooks as of one of the more obscure uses of "going to"!?

I learn Mandarin, and as far as I'm aware, singers have always altered tones somewhat to fit melodies. Do you think there has been a change recently? Three identical tones in sequence don't seem to slip off the tongue very well. I'd also be