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2. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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   In modern English this is identical to the past indicative, except in the first and third persons singular of the verb be, where the indicative is was and the subjunctive were; was is sometimes used as a colloquialism (were otherwise preferred), although the phrase if I were you is common in colloquial language.

3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

4. Conditional sentence - Wikipedia

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   A conditional sentence is a sentence in a natural language that expresses that one thing is contingent on another, e.g., "If it rains, the picnic will be cancelled." They are so called because the impact of the sentence’s main clause is conditional on a subordinate clause.

5. Latin conditional clauses - Wikipedia

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   When a generalisation uses the 2nd person singular in a condition, meaning 'one' or 'anyone', the verb is usually in the subjunctive mood even in classical writers: [70] memoria minuitur, nisi eam exerceās (Cicero) [71] 'memory gets weaker, if you don't exercise it' standum est in lectō, sī quid dē summō petās (Plautus) [72]

6. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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   In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down, run into, or sit up), sometimes collocated with a preposition (e.g., get together with, run out of, or feed off of).

7. Indirect speech - Wikipedia

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   For instance, the example above uses the third person pronoun "she" even though Jill's original utterance used the first person pronoun "I". [1] In some languages, including English, the tense of verbs can also be changed following the sequence of tense. Some languages also have a change of mood.