Re: Help!

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Ouch! Well, I think enough people pointed out that your grammatical
> knowledge was sketchy at best, and gave you links to enough resources to
> edificate you :) . My only advice would be that you try to look how
> languages like French or Spanish treat verbs, and especially the
> conditional. English is a bit liberal with its verbs, while Romance
> languages tend to be stricter with their tenses and moods, so that they are
> a better example of what tense and mood is, unlike English which tends to
> mix everything.
Uatakassi has no way of saying "Would".  There is a prefix us- used for
"then" as in "if/then" clauses, but the rest of the verb is identical to
how it would be used in an independent clause.  As far as I can tell,
every use of "would" (except when it's a future-in-past, as in "within a
few days, he would be dead") has either an explicit or implicit "if"
clause (e.g., the above sentence "... how it would be used in an
independent clause" could be rephrased as "... how it would be used if
it were used in an independent clause")

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