Future Forms
Let's think about labels and the problems they cause.
I have written elsewhere about the 'Simple Past' label applied to verbs. The use of such a label may make life easier for teachers and students in the early years of learning how to talk about ‘the past’, but an unintended consequence later is the problem with understanding second conditionals, for ex…
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