LING 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Dependent Clause, Present Tense, Modus Tollens
7 Nov 2016
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Main clauses in past tense; subordinate clause in past tense. Main clause in future tense; subordinate clause in present tense: Aaron returned the keys [s before he left]. [s while fred was washing| we prepared dinner. [s if it rained], the ground was wet. Aaron will return the keys [s before he leaves]. Even though [before he leaves] can be understood as being in the future tense. [s while fred is washing] we will prepare dinner. [s if it rains], the ground will be wet. [s if it rained], the ground will be wet. [s if it rained], the ground would be wet. Main clause in future or conditional tense; subordinate clause in past tense: [if richard were here, beth would be upset. This suggests that in fact, it hadn"t rained. We distinguish conditionals, which are in the indicative mood, from conditional in the subjunctive mood. Hypothesis: the english subordinator if in the indicative mood denotes o .
