Do You Mind If I Smoke?: The Memoirs of Fenella Fielding

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The conventional Would you mind if I asked observes the sequence of tenses of type II conditionals (simple past in the if-clause, conditional in the main clause), and it's this which causes people to say that the version with the present in the if-clause is incorrect.

Jenny gazed at me and turned her head a little bit to the right, the way a dog does when it hears a high-pitched squeal. Setting your Language Level helps other users provide you with answers that aren't too complex or too simple. Would you mind if I smoked here= simple future tense question using conditional tense form of smoke. Glorious, gossipy reminiscences of a vanished showbiz world delivered in a breathless, intimate prose style that mirrors Fenella's familiar, dulcet, dark-brown tones.

However, the converse is false: the presence of "would" in the main clause does not necessarily require either a modal preterite or a subjunctive in the "if"-clause. I was pleased to discover there is so much more to her than THAT red dress, and a tedious journey was made much more pleasurable by being in her company.

I may be slightly dishonest in what follows, in so far as I'm not totally convinced of the immaculate correctness of " would you mind if I smoke? I must admit that I'm finding it hard to make parallels between what you put here and the original question because you have "when" and the original has "if" and that makes a very big difference. However, I am not a native speaker, so my solutions may be very rescricted to what you can find in a book on descriptive grammar. Enfin, nous démontrons comment cette exploration expérientielle basée sur l’objet, largement absente en santé publique, peut offrir une perspective de recherche novatrice dans ce domaine.I have sat across the table from someone who has asked one of these questions while at the same time taking out the cigarette packet and the lighter and pulling the ashtray from the shelf. Through all of this Fenella and Simon became great friends and spent a lot of time together that led to many more revelations and observations. As Fenella says, in her unmistakeable and ever-alluring voice, "It's the best and worst bits of my life. The flames dazzled and hypnotized me, but I soon snapped out of it and realized that I needed to get the hell out of there before Barney Fife showed up again in his little police costume.

Simultaneously she had an illustrious stage career that includes leading roles in works by Wilde, Shakespeare, Sheridan and Chekhov. Highlighting her work in radio, TV and film, it also looks at her more serious roles on the stage, such as Hedda Gabler and Colette.By observing the design of public benches, the places where they are found, the meanings people attribute to them, and the way people use them, we can learn what health-related practices (e. Even if ordinarily I wouldn't mind, I'd be likely to either refuse permission or rant at whatever idiot asked for my indulgence in a context where it would seem he's going to smoke anyway, regardless of whether I mind or not. As you say it seems to be a conditional, and I think in this case it does work as a conditional sentence.

Ainsi, nous considérons les apprentissages que les bancs publics nous permettent de faire pour mieux comprendre comment les pratiques liées à la santé sont influencées par ce qui peut être vu en y étant assis ou en observant ceux qui y sont assis. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I climbed up on that ladder, dipped the brush deep in the bucket of paint, and slapped that gosh darn apostrophe where it belonged between the Y and the S, once and for all. This audiobook is the result of a long series of meetings with Simon McKay who asked many questions and received many answers. In this commentary, we illustrate how exploring the meanings and uses of everyday, seemingly mundane, public objects can advance our understanding of health-related practices and the social norms that shape them.Though I was initially only familiar with Fenella through her role in Carry On Screaming, I found her biography to be both informative and entertaining. Much of the meaning and colour of such questions depends on the tone of voice and the manner of the speaker.