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

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Setting your Language Level helps other users provide you with answers that aren't too complex or too simple. A duplication of some 5 paragraphs p114 and p125, and a misspelling of her surname in a chapter heading wasn’t good. As I was gifted this book by friends who know of my Gothic inclinations, theatre background and love of kitsch, this proved a perfect present. Who wants to live in a country where a man can’t enjoy a cigarette and relax at the end of a work day? 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.

This skinny little guy, couldn’t have been more than twenty years old with pimples covering his face, wiggles his skinny ass out of the patrol car. The same applies to smoked instead of smoke, which isn't really "past tense" there (it just means "not present tense, not here-and-now", because there are only two "tenses" in English).Her breakthrough as an actor came in Sandy Wilson's musical "Valmouth", after which she starred in Harold Pinter's revue "Pieces of Eight", alongside Kenneth Williams, a partnership reprised most famously when she played the Vampirish Valeria in "Carry On Screaming" (1966). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I was also irritated by a repetition of several paragraphs, which should have been removed during editing. The problem is that the sign is telling the public that multiple Jennys owned the café, which is just a bald-faced lie. it's worth the listen alone for the bits about her Carry On movies, but what stands out is someone far deeper and who has lived and met many famous people.

here we have left the gentleness of the conditional form, and the question is almost expecting the answer no, and certainly making it quite hard for the other person to object. You may use it in informal language, but either it is subjunctive or conditional, or whatever, it is NOT correct. In the simple present, you cannot use either the past or future tense for verbs that follow the word mind. Actually, you could say that the [current] sentence is in the subjunctive tense, not commonly taught in English, unless you're learning a foreign language, like French, Italian, Spanish. Love the book, so full of anecdote's and asides to an actors life that I had difficulty to put it down.And hence just as when it is not a question it is "you would mind if I smoked" (or "if I smoked, you would mind"), so as a question it is "would you mind if I smoked? Neither Jenny nor the numb nuts sign maker happened to notice that the apostrophe was missing between the Y and S. I was driving by Jenny’s Café a few days later to admire my handy work, when I noticed that some asshole (probably Jenny herself) had crawled up there and erased my beautiful apostrophe — slapped some white paint right over it. Very polite but less certain as in "I am probably going to smoke here but if you don't like it I may not do it. If it's a conditional, then how come it's not as idiomatic to say "If I smoked here, would you mind?