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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Should in conditional sentences

If she should come, I would be glad.
If she should come, I'll be glad.
How are they different?
  

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The first is Conditional II: an unlikely future. The second is a mixed II/I conditional, with the speaker more confident of his own emotion than he is of her coming.

— Mister Micawber

  • The first is Conditional II: an unlikely future.
  • The second is a mixed II/I conditional, with the speaker more confident of his own emotion than he is of her coming.
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The first is Conditional II: an unlikely future.
The second is a mixed II/I conditional, with the speaker more confident of his own emotion than he is of her coming.
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