When this column took up the grammar of "if"-conditional sentences last week, I emphasized that a good communicator doesn't make bland assertions of truth every time but expresses them simply as ...

What is a conditional sentence? Conditionals are structures which express a situation and the possible results. If it rains, I'll stay inside and watch a film. Use the zero conditional to express ...

We use the third conditional when we want to imagine a different past to that which actually occurred. In this episode of the flatmates, Sophie says the following to Alice. "We wouldn't have had ...

YOU are given this sentence, “Franz didn’t take that job he was offered,” and you are asked to assume that you are Franz. How do you construct the statement in the affirmative? This question was ...