Episode 44 - The Quest for the Holy Grail of English Grammar | An Interview with Christopher Walker
The Clark and Miller English Podcast
How Many Combinations of Distance Do You Think We Need to Make?
There were two kinds of distance, subjective and objective. Now generally we think of conditionals as being either first, second or third. And I feel that that number is a clue. Because if there are three different kinds of conditions how many combinations do you need to make? Mm hmm. Well it's three. We start with this one, no distance. Okay. Next one, I'm going to talk about if we had met yesterday, we would have talked about different things. Which changes reality. So that's our objective distance. That's where the objective to use. Back twice back to the past form, past form to the past perfect. Yeah. Then when we introduce
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