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User_english Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

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0I have one doubt,02br
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00One day my teacher asked me the following question :02br
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00What will you do, If you are prime minister?02br
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00But after I come across this forum, I found that we should use (would instead of will) when we are talking about unreal condition.02br
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00So, now I think the sentence :02br
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00"What will you do, if you are prime minister? is wrong and we should say 02br
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00"What would you do, if you were prime minister?02br
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00Could you explain me the hidden meaning in the above two sentences?0-
  

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0It is not unreal in the future. 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • 0It is not unreal in the future.
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0It is not unreal in the future. Your teacher has great hopes for you, and thinks you have a chance of becoming Prime Minister-- and 01i00if you are Prime Minister some day, what will you do02i00?0-
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01cite10Mister Micawber12cite10It is not unreal in the future. Your teacher has great hopes for you, and thinks you have a chance of becoming Prime Minister-- and 11i10if you are Prime Minister some day, what will you do12i10?12br
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10Ok, thanks.02br
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0Think of it this way:02br
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00If you were (today) Prime Minister, what would you do?02br
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00If I were Prime Minister, I would...02br
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00If you are (elected next year as) Prime Minster, what will you do?02br
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00If I am (elected as) Prime Minister, I will...02br
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00Listen to poli
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0Thank you very much.02br
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00I understood, will and would concept.02br
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00Really, I like this website very much.02br
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00Now,02br
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00Look at the following :02h3

00(1) These are my flowers. (I am confused because here all words are in plural form except my)02br
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0In English, the possessive pronoun (or whatever you want to call "my") does not change with the object. I can have one flower or a dozen flowers, but I still use just "my." 02br
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00I know this is a contrast to French: mon ami (singular) but mes amis (plural) so perhaps this is a contrast to your native language as well. But there is no plural to "my" that changes based
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10In English, the possessive pronoun (or whatever you want to call "my") does not change with the object. I can have one flower or a dozen flowers, but I still use just "my." 12br
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10I know this is a contrast to French: mon ami (singular) but mes amis (plural) so perhaps this is a contra
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