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Modals/conditionals?
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cunliffe
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Modals/conditionals?
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Hi friends. I am thinking of preparing a project for my school to promote higher level language skills. This kind of thing - �What might have caused this...? � �What might have happened if...? � �What would he have done if he had known that....? � I am going to go through the subject areas and come up with examples, e.g. in science - the teacher can show a picture of a green, polluted river and ask, �What might have caused this? � My question is: how shall I label this language - (would/should/might plus a compound tense?) Modals? Past conditionals? |
21 Jun 2014
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nasreddine Sarsar
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This is really good to teach! This is the conditional perfect Lynn! Wish you good luck with your project. Have a wonderful weekend. |
21 Jun 2014
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mimetomt
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This is third conditional!
You can also teach mixed conditional
eg. If I hadn �t spent all my money, I wouldn �t be hard up now!
Good luck!
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21 Jun 2014
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isa2
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I would call it the speculative perfect conditional (= making conditions for the past with the use of modals) although it is not a gramatically correct definition.
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21 Jun 2014
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JPDZ
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I �d call it "Past conditional" or Past hypothesis. |
21 Jun 2014
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almaz
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Conditional Perfect is the usual way to describe these constructions - when there�s a condition. But how about modal verbs of inference or probability? Remember that it �s the �if � clause which is the condition while the �might have... � construction - the construction you �re interested in - is the possible/probable consequence.
Hell, just call it �Consequences � 
Alex
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22 Jun 2014
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jannabanna
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Oh Alex you beat me to it! I was just going to say : Causes and Consequences!
I had a super exercise on that with a list of things to talk about, but that was YEARS ago and I have no idea where it disappeared to.
In any case it �s the conditional perfect or third conditional if there is an "if".
Janet |
22 Jun 2014
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cunliffe
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Thank you, guys. I remembered it was the conditional perfect - it �s one of those things I used to know! I think I �ll call it �Teaching modal verbs of inference � because my purpose is to encourage the teachers to teach the language that the ss need for higher level thinking skills.
Janet - if you ever find that list, I �ll have it!
Thanks again, Lynne |
22 Jun 2014
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