Conditionals are used to express both real, likely and unreal situations. As a result, tenses used with them are not flat; they change. That is why the difference between ‘If I arrive’ and ‘If I had ...

Food writer Russ Parsons, a regular contributor to this newspaper but still adjusting to Irish ways after moving here from California, was wondering on Twitter/X recently about one of our linguistic ...

The rules of grammar ('I will go') are shifting in response to traffic ('I might get there'), WE USE language to describe reality reality changes and the language changes. So the experts tell us. Well ...

A person could use the immediate future tense to say what they are going to do or what is going to happen. The conditional tense describes what someone would do or what would happen in the future. In ...