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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Thank you all for your
input, specially to Ramesh, Jean-Charles and Mark. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>I find it difficult to
digest this construction even though I am not a prescriptivist. In Br Eng, we
find the following construction for conditionals:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><STRONG>If + past tense,
.. would (verb). <FONT color=#ff0000>[if he came, we would
go ....]</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><STRONG>If + past perfect,
.. would have (+ past participle).<FONT color=#ff0000>[if he had come, we
would have gone ]</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>While in Am Eng, I was told
that the conditionals can take the following forms:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><STRONG>If + would (verb),
.. would (verb). <FONT color=#ff0000>[if he would come, we would
go ....]</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><STRONG>If + would have (+
past participle), ... + would have (+ past participle). <FONT
color=#ff0000>[if he would have come, we would have
gone ....]</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>I am interested in more
genre-related data for the 'if + would + would' grammatical construction.
For example, </FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>I would like
to know if these constructions are really a standard practice and whether we
can </FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>accept them in
formal academic writing. </FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080
size=2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Thank you much in
advance.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>