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Johnson13 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Can you read that form
In the dictionary is a sentence:
Can you read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it.
Does it mean all the sentences below are acceptable grammatically?
1.Can you read that form carefully, if you won't mind, and then sign it.
2.Could you read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it.
3.Could you read that form carefully, if you won't mind, and then sign it.
Can you read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it.
Does it mean all the sentences below are acceptable grammatically?
1.Can you read that form carefully, if you won't mind, and then sign it.
2.Could you read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it.
3.Could you read that form carefully, if you won't mind, and then sign it.
Top answer
I don't see why Oxford did not use a question mark. I would have. ) To ask whether you can read it is already conditional, so the "if" jars.
- I don't see why Oxford did not use a question mark.
- I would have.
- ) To ask whether you can read it is already conditional, so the "if" jars.
- " Leaving that problem aside, of your three sentences, only number 2 is possible.
- " I suspect that that version would sound sarcastic in Britain.
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I don't see why Oxford did not use a question mark. I would have.
The original sentence is not very grammatical (Can you read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it.) To ask whether you can read it is already conditional, so the "if" jars. I would expect "Please read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it."
Leaving that problem aside, of
The original sentence is not very grammatical (Can you read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it.) To ask whether you can read it is already conditional, so the "if" jars. I would expect "Please read that form carefully, if you wouldn't mind, and then sign it."
Leaving that problem aside, of
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