conditionals

I have had trouble getting advanced ss to actively use other modals than would/will in conditionals, which natives do all the time and it gives a more precise meaning.

C is for Conditional (the Third) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

As for third conditional, I wish I had got into corpus when I first started teaching, to pull examples and see the way we use modality in conditionals before pulling out the 4 condishes in their convenient wrappers.

S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Besides, the SIC allows for a generalized treatment of counterfactual conditionals in which counterfactuals with possible antecedents are analyzed as per the standard Lewis-Stalnaker approach; and the treatment of counterpossible conditionals, that is, counterfactuals with impossible antecedents (to which we shall return in the following Section), comes in as a smooth extension of the standard view.

Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009

An enthusiasm for compartmentalization, inherited from grammars of classical languages, has given rise to the elaborate architecture of the so-called tense system – including such grammar McNuggets as the future-in-the-past, and the past perfect continuous, not to mention the conditionals, first, second and third – features of the language that have little or no linguistic, let alone psychological, reality.

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There were unfounded claims so laced with conditionals and so lacking in specificity as to be essentially meaningless: What precisely was the “screaming syndrome” that was “surely an irritation of the central nervous system”?

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

The race was restricted to conditionals who had ridden less than 20 winners, leaving Twiston-Davies and the owner Colin Roberts to search desperately for an eligible replacement.

Tattenham Corner 2011

There were unfounded claims so laced with conditionals and so lacking in specificity as to be essentially meaningless: What precisely was the “screaming syndrome” that was “surely an irritation of the central nervous system”?

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

An enthusiasm for compartmentalization, inherited from grammars of classical languages, has given rise to the elaborate architecture of the so-called tense system – including such grammar McNuggets as the future-in-the-past, and the past perfect continuous, not to mention the conditionals, first, second and third – features of the language that have little or no linguistic, let alone psychological, reality.

G is for Grammar McNuggets « An A-Z of ELT 2010

There were unfounded claims so laced with conditionals and so lacking in specificity as to be essentially meaningless: What precisely was the “screaming syndrome” that was “surely an irritation of the central nervous system”?

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

This exercise also allows me to introduce conditionals, the use of = = as the equality predicate, and basic data types via the user string input needing to be converted to an integer.

William E. J. Doane PhD › Goodbye, Hello World? 2010