Second conditionals
Recently I've learnt new sentence structure similar to second conditional. In spite of the fact that I can write a positive sentence, I don't have the foggiest idea about how to write a negative sentence. However, I tried to convert it to a negative sentence as following.
Original sentence.
Were they, for example, to mandate that all apartment dwellers should dispose their waste properly and systematically as well as purchase disposable products, this could dramatically change the attitudes and the behaviours of the residents.
Were they, for example, not to mandate that all apartment dwellers should dispose their waste properly and systematically as well as purchase disposable products, this could not dramatically change the attitudes and the behaviours of the residents.
Additionally, please give me a url to learn about this construction further, it you have any.
Thanks.
Top answer
dileepa Were they, for example "Were they" is a more sophisticated or literary way to write "If they were". g. Were they our friends, they would not mock our beliefs.
- dileepa Were they, for example "Were they" is a more sophisticated or literary way to write "If they were".
- g.
- Were they our friends, they would not mock our beliefs.
- Were they to play each other, I'd give the Texans the edge over the Falcons.
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dileepaWere they, for example
"Were they" is a more sophisticated or literary way to write "If they were".
e.g.
Were they our friends, they would not mock our beliefs.
Were they to play each other, I'd give the Texans the edge over the Falcons.
0dileepaWere they, for example, not to mandate ...
This is a correct formation of the negative. "Were they not, for example, to mandate ..." is also a possibility.
dileepa... this could not dramatically change the attitudes and the behaviours of the residents.
This is grammatically correct in itself, b
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