Bog'liq English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
Questions, suggestions and issues to consider 1. What are the criticisms that Lewis and Willis make of the three-conditional
model?
2. What differences are there between the two readings? For example, which
supplies more evidence?
3. If you learnt English formally in school, were conditional sentences presented to
you in this way? Were any ‘exceptions’ mentioned? What labels were used for the
three types? Some accounts mention another conditional, the ‘zero’ conditional,
where both tenses are present: (If he is given the role, I quit.) but this does not
help to solve the basic problem.
4. Select a sentence from the Willis reading that could be used as a quote attacking
the three-conditional approach.
5. Compare this pedagogic problem with others mentioned in the book, for
example the ‘rule’ for second mention article usage (see B3). How similar
are they?
