Q.10-

A student says: "If I would have the time, I'd do my homework every night. "
How do you respond?

First Question

Topic Area
Conditional Sentences

How to respond...
In English, most sentences which contain a clause beginning with If are known as 'Conditional' sentences. A Conditional sentence normally has two parts: an If-clause, and a subordinate clause, which invariably contains a modal auxiliary verb (would, will, might, could, etc).

If something happens, something else will happen
(If you scratch my car, I'll kill you!).

In English, conditional sentences do not normally take a modal auxiliary verb in the If-clause. But many languages do. In the above example, the student is probably translating directly from his/her own language and is unaware of the conventions surrounding conditional sentences in English.

 

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