Timeline for Mixed type conditional or Type 2/3 conditional?
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| Sep 16, 2019 at 8:16 | answer | added | Antonio D. | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 1:46 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | "1st, 2nd, 3rd, mixed conditionals" are common in the teaching of English as a second language, but they are not used by linguists: the combinations of form and meaning they cover are only a small fraction of the many possible conditional constructions. | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | MMacD | I'd categorise the if it didn't as abstract present, since it uses present form to refer to abstract (unbound) time. The if you hadn't is just past conditional that spills into the present. [Although a native speaker, I learned English grammar while learning Russian and German, so I nearly always ignore the terms found in books about English grammar] | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 21:19 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Generally, you set off a conditional phrase with a comma. Other than that, your examples are all common usage, with different nuances based on the tenses. But nothing jumps out at me as wrong. Can you be more specific as to what about these you're questioning? | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | MMacD | I've never heard those terms before, and I suspect that they're terms someone made up to sell their book. So I'd say: no, it doesn't matter. | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 21:13 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I don't know if "type 2 conditional" and "type 3 conditional" are universal terms, or labels a particular author applied within a particular reference. Being unfamiliar with the terms, my reaction is similar to seeing someone refer to "definition 5" in an unidentified dictionary; definition 5 will refer to something different in every dictionary because it is only a local identifier. Often terms are more descriptive than officially defined, and are better understood within the context of the book in which they are used. As a general practice, it's good to use actual examples, as you did here. | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 20:34 | comment | added | SovereignSun | What's the purpose of conditionals if, normally, nobody uses them and tries to avoid? | |
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