Ed,
Yes, this was what I meant. I just asked "Is it true or not?" It is a sincere question. I can't speak for EFLs really.
Good to see you here. As you know, I cannot go back there anymore.
Shun
Standard use of used to or not?
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But this doesn't mean I shall have no say whatsoever about the structure "I would be happy if you came next week".
As I have reported here, on internet we can easily search for and locate verbs in Present Perfect placed together with yesterday, like "has arrived yesterday", an obviously erroneous structure well known to everyone. That is to say, when grammar books remind us not to do it, people do it sometimes.
But we can scarcely find structures like "if you came next week". If it is a still-useful structure, we shall find many of them. Therefore, personally, I won't use "I would be happy if you came next week", though I have often seen the preaching of it in grammar books. I have said and repeated that, as for using tenses, I don't trust in grammar books.
Shun
As I have reported here, on internet we can easily search for and locate verbs in Present Perfect placed together with yesterday, like "has arrived yesterday", an obviously erroneous structure well known to everyone. That is to say, when grammar books remind us not to do it, people do it sometimes.
But we can scarcely find structures like "if you came next week". If it is a still-useful structure, we shall find many of them. Therefore, personally, I won't use "I would be happy if you came next week", though I have often seen the preaching of it in grammar books. I have said and repeated that, as for using tenses, I don't trust in grammar books.
Shun