Timeline for "Should" cannot replace "if?"
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| Mar 10, 2013 at 19:51 | comment | added | John Lawler | Good grief, no. Should is not a formal version of if, any more than may is the month before June. Both should and may are modal auxiliary verbs and do not occur alone, nor as conjunctions. | |
| May 22, 2011 at 2:32 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | @language hacker: It depends on your definition of redundant. You could make the argument that should is a completely redundant word since it can also be replaced with "ought to" in other situations. But so what? | |
| May 22, 2011 at 2:11 | comment | added | language hacker | Then is the "should" in "if you should ever" redundant? | |
| May 22, 2011 at 1:55 | history | answered | gbutters | CC BY-SA 3.0 |