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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Questions on sentences with if-clauses
Hi. Please help me with these.
1. Do you think we should back-shift the following sentence if we take (assume) the "He" to mean Jesus Christ, whose word to me is unchanging and infallible.
He said if we do that, this will happen.
2. If someone said this, do you think we need to back-shift? I think a guru answered we should, but I hear some people who are good in English telling me we need not. Help.
He said if you do that, he will do this.
3. Assuming someone is checking into a hotel and a hotel clerk says this. Would you say the modal verb "would" in the if-clause is incorrect? I don't know much about the steps involved in checking into a hotel and the sentence is made-up to ask a grammatical question.
Sir, if would sign here, I will get your room key.
1. Do you think we should back-shift the following sentence if we take (assume) the "He" to mean Jesus Christ, whose word to me is unchanging and infallible.
He said if we do that, this will happen.
2. If someone said this, do you think we need to back-shift? I think a guru answered we should, but I hear some people who are good in English telling me we need not. Help.
He said if you do that, he will do this.
3. Assuming someone is checking into a hotel and a hotel clerk says this. Would you say the modal verb "would" in the if-clause is incorrect? I don't know much about the steps involved in checking into a hotel and the sentence is made-up to ask a grammatical question.
Sir, if would sign here, I will get your room key.
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1. Do you think we should back-shift the following sentence-- No. 2.
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- Do you think we should back-shift the following sentence-- No.
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- You need not if the action is yet to occur.
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1. Do you think we should back-shift the following sentence-- No.
2. You need not if the action is yet to occur.
3. Assuming someone is checking into a hotel and a hotel clerk says this. Would you say the modal verb "would" in the if-clause is incorrect?-- It is just more polite than 'will'.
2. You need not if the action is yet to occur.
3. Assuming someone is checking into a hotel and a hotel clerk says this. Would you say the modal verb "would" in the if-clause is incorrect?-- It is just more polite than 'will'.
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