Second Conditional:

If+past simple and would+infinitive

This example is even more complicated by the fact that the result part of this second conditional
(‘would you take it’) is a question.

Concept Questions (CQs):

Are they talking about the future, the past or the present? Future.

Has the pill been discovered yet? No.

So is the pill real or not? Not real.

Would you

assimilation

Linguistics The process by which a sound is modified so that it becomes similar or identical to an
adjacent or nearby sound. For example, the prefix in- becomes im- in impossible by assimilation to
the labial p of possible

Reply: Assimilation or elision – thanks for this Regina. Basically assimilation is changing a sound, due
to the influence of neighbouring sounds and elision is omitting a sound, for the same reason. And
quite often assimilation and elision occur together. In the famous example of hand bag you can see
the dropping (elision) of the /d/ so you get, in ordinary spelling hanbag. But having got there you
now have a situation where a further shortcut will be for the nasal /n/ to change (assimilate) to the
bilabial version of a nasal ie /m/ as a shortcut to the coming bilabial /b/. You thus end up with, in
ordinary spelling, hambag.

/ wʊd juː /

Becomes
/ wəʤʊ /