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In older dialects and more formal registers, the form "were" is often used instead of "was". Counterfactuals of this sort are sometimes referred to as were'd up conditionals. [2] Were'd up: If I were king, I could have you thrown in the dungeon. The form "were" can also be used with an infinitive to form a future less vivid conditional. [3]
The counterfactual example uses the fake tense form "owned" in the "if" clause and the past-inflected modal "would" in the "then" clause. [1] As a result, it conveys that Sally does not in fact own a donkey. [2] Similar contrasts are common crosslinguistically, though the specific morphological marking varies from language to language. [3] [4 ...
Conditionals in linguistics (1 C, 7 P) N. Necessity and sufficiency (5 P) Pages in category "Conditionals" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
if Dani Dani haya be. PST. 3S. M ba-bayit in-home maχa ɾ tomorrow hayinu be. PST. 1PL mevakRim visit. PTC. PL oto he. ACC im Dani haya ba-bayit {maχa ɾ} hayinu mevakRim oto if Dani be. PST.3S.M in-home tomorrow be. PST.1PL visit.PTC.PL he.ACC "If Dani had been home tomorrow, we would've visited him." Palestinian Arabic is another: iza if kaan be. PST. 3S. M fi in l-bet the-house bukra ...
The beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by a flurry of executive orders aimed at fundamentally reshaping the government, America’s place on the global stage and ...
An 86-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake, in a case that ...
For one more example of the incompleteness of the present classification, while an expression of the idea that in the future, when/if X is true, Y will customarily happen (Future conditional), matches the form of this “1-conditional”, it assumes distinct forms in Latin and Russian. — Kkmº 14:01, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Busch was caught up in a crash right at the beginning of Stage 2, one that he blamed on Joey Logano. "Looked like the fastest car got in a hurry to get to the wreck," Busch said of Logano, whose ...