Conditionals: "aux + subj + verb(inf)" construction
Hello, I am a non-native English speaker and I just wanted to know whether a construction of the kind "aux (will/would) + subj + verb(inf)" would be a correct one in conditional sentences, so instead of saying, for instance, "If this was/were the case, ..." you can have "Would this be the case, ..." as an alternative grammatical option. For me it doesn't sound odd, but I have just searched for cases on the web and could only manage to find the ones with the auxiliary "shall/should" (perhaps because it is too formal?), so I am wondering whether this construction is standard also with "will/would".
Thanks.
Top answer
" as an alternative grammatical option. It sounds archaic to me.
— Mister Micawber
" as an alternative grammatical option.
It sounds archaic to me.
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