How do you express regret?
If only past perfect
Category: conditionals
if it were to infinitve
Point 119 in clauses collocated in the NOW corpus: 1 IF IT WERE TO BE 115 most of these are followed by a past participle, a search of which are: 1 IF IT WERE TO BE IMPLEMENTED 5 2 IF IT WERE TO BE APPLIED 5 3 IF IT WERE TO BE MADE 4 4 […]
Inversion in clauses with conditions and formality
This is another post that points at overlapping points on the English Grammar Profile. Parts of two points are worded differently but basically locate the same structure for “should” starting a sentence. The only noticeable difference for these points in succession is that one is labelled as conditional and the other located in a “formal […]
if *ed (.|,) Add more salt if needed.
It is not so clear on the English grammar profile, why they say “if + ed endings”. Their examples include words that get tagged as past participles and adjectives, yet to help maintain focus, this entry does look at just the word ending “ed”. What we found here is that the best examples lead back […]