[Corpora-List] If + would , would

[Nigel Bruce]

Doug,
But how much wood  would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck had been 
chucking back two-buck chuck?

Nigel

At 02:13 PM 3/22/2006, Doug Cooper wrote:
>If a woodchuck could chuck wood,
>How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
>if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
>
>Parveen Umm Abdul Aziz wrote:
>>Hello everyone,
>>Can someone help please?
>>How often does this grammatical construction occur in American English? 
>>And, in which particular genre?
>>If ... would ..., ... would .........
>>Thank you all in adavnce
>
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