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 ...

前回、英語の条件文として「Zero Conditional」と「First Conditional」の違いを説明した。今回は「Second Conditional」だ。日本語では「仮定法過去」と呼ばれることもあるが、過去かどうかなどにこだわる必要はない。もっとシンプルに理解しよう。 【こちらも】「if ...

A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has found that Criminal Code provisions prohibiting conditional sentences for certain offences did not infringe an Indigenous woman’s equality rights, because ...

Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...