We are pleased to announce the opening of our new offices and classrooms on 2nd July 2005:
                   Gewerbepark Lebach
                   Hans-Schardt-Straße 1
                   D-66822 Lebach
You'll find us on the groundfloor of the Michels Automation GmbH building.
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Soon Taylor:Sprachen will be offering evening courses for up to 6 participants. The courses will offer training in presentation, negotiation, conducting meetings and inter-cultural matters, and will take place in the premises of the TBBGZ (Technisch-Gewerbliches Berufbildungszentrum) (Address: Am Mügelsberg, Saarbrücken). For further details, please revisit this page over the coming weeks, or contact us without obligation to make further enquiries.


From now on, under the new heading of "Tricky Territory", we will be presenting brief explanations, essays or exercises relating to mistakes of the kind that tend to keep cropping up during the lessons. These short pieces will mainly be concerned with classic "false friends" (for example, the English word "actual" does not correspond to the German word "aktuell"), or with English words that non-native speakers/writers often get mixed up (for example, "shadow" and "shade", etc).

#2

Have you ever wondered about those if-clauses?

There must be more than these much cited 3 different cases and yes, you are right: there are.

Most grammars reduce the if-clauses to three basic conditions with a further classification into sub-categories.

So what do you do if you want to describe a condition from the past and you can feel the consequences in the present?

Let's have a look:

If I had known that, I would not be here now.

Makes perfect sense, but you won't find this example in most standard grammar books.

Why is that? Well, it's a good question. Our favourite answer to this question, given by the member of an English teacher forum in the internet, is "in order not to confuse the learner". Well, we think, you have the right to know and we have the duty to inform you that there are more than three cases.

And you are right: there is another case and another case and another case but you will hear about these later - we don't want to confuse you...