As for third conditional, I wish I had got into corpus when I first started teaching, to pull examples and see the way we use modality in conditionals before pulling out the 4 condishes in their convenient wrappers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I have had trouble getting advanced ss to actively use other modals than would/will in conditionals, which natives do all the time and it gives a more precise meaning. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Besides, the SIC allows for a generalized treatment of counterfactual conditionals in which counterfactuals with possible antecedents are analyzed as per the standard Lewis-Stalnaker approach; and the treatment of counterpossible conditionals, that is, counterfactuals with impossible antecedents (to which we shall return in the following Section), comes in as a smooth extension of the standard view. ❋ Berto, Francesco (2009)
An enthusiasm for compartmentalization, inherited from grammars of classical languages, has given rise to the elaborate architecture of the so-called tense system – including such grammar McNuggets as the future-in-the-past, and the past perfect continuous, not to mention the conditionals, first, second and third – features of the language that have little or no linguistic, let alone psychological, reality. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There were unfounded claims so laced with conditionals and so lacking in specificity as to be essentially meaningless: What precisely was the “screaming syndrome” that was “surely an irritation of the central nervous system”? ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)
The race was restricted to conditionals who had ridden less than 20 winners, leaving Twiston-Davies and the owner Colin Roberts to search desperately for an eligible replacement. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I thought French third conditionals more or less translated exactly into English. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The point I was trying to make above is that there is a parallel with Spanish third conditionals: the difference between what people actually say and what they are told to say – exactly as we are talking about in English. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On a related anecdotal note, I teach in The Czech Republic just now and was talking about various conditionals in a C1 level class just last week. ❋ Unknown (2010)
October 19th, 2009 at 12: 13 am explanation of mixed conditionals would be great. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Well, of course I can contemplate a probability distribution over a range of outcomes, and therefore I tend to talk in terms of conditionals as opposed to certainties. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This exercise also allows me to introduce conditionals, the use of = = as the equality predicate, and basic data types via the user string input needing to be converted to an integer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ms. Raine's research shows in the undidactic way she makes the audience understand the arguments: Is "signing" a language itself, not simply an inadequate version of English, though it is unable to express conditionals (such as "if" and "would")? ❋ Paul Levy (2010)
Mr. De'Longhi is chairman of De'Longhi SpA, an appliance company based in Treviso, Italy, and produces por table heaters and air conditionals along with kitchen appliances. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Those conditionals/behaviour orders are rapidly becoming like medals amongst these animals - the “deterrent” factor only applies to ordinary, decent working people and even then not very strongly! on October 28, 2008 at 7: 01 pm | Reply TheBinarySurfer ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)
