Timeline for Sequence of tenses?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 3, 2013 at 4:59 | answer | added | Shoe | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 5:18 | comment | added | Kris | Good question for ELL. ell.stackexchange.com | |
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| Apr 3, 2013 at 3:08 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | I should add that if you’re a Spanish speaker, Pato, and accustomed to its sort of sequence of tense “rules”, then these often fail to translate well between the two languages, and can often require recasting. For example, “If you would take your seats, we will get started” might become “Si os queréis sentar, podemos empezar”, and your original might well be “Visitaría a mi primo si me visitase a mí también”, which is more of a “I would visit my cousin if (only) he were to visit me, too” sort of thing. They just don’t always line up evenly. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 2:46 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | It probably isn’t especially meaningful to speak of your “I would go visit my cousin if he would come visit me as well” example as being “in the same tense”, except perhaps pathologically. Those two different would instances are acting completely differently there, with the second being more a volitional thing, like “If you would please take your seats, we will get started.” | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 2:40 | answer | added | John M. Landsberg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 2:21 | comment | added | John Lawler | Your last sentence is OK, as is the present tense. I don't know where these rules come from. There's nothing like that in English grammar, but there are a lot of very silly textbooks out there with nonsense the authors made up themselves. They're just wrong. Sorry. Don't believe everything you read. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 2:15 | history | asked | Pato | CC BY-SA 3.0 |