I think if you use 'would' you have to use the unreal past in the 'if clause', otherwise you would have to say: Do you mind if I smoke? Centre for Healthy Communities, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The sentence with "smoked" is a remote conditional: the modal preterite "smoked" in the "if"-clause requires an auxiliary like "would" in the main clause. Then striking out as a young adult: living alone, compromising situations - Fenella's friend telling her, "He'd have given you fifty quid if you'd walked on his stomach in high heels.

While this doesn’t exactly make for great literature, it oddly does add to her charm and gives a real sense of Fenella falling somewhat naïvely through a wondrous acting life that encompassed everything from a starring role Hedda Gabler to: Carry On Screaming, The Morecambe and Wise Show, and The Prisoner. 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. g., people who smoke or who do not smoke) are included and excluded as part of local community life. is the astonishing and often hilarious life story of a national treasure, told for the first time in a special edition hardback book, published on the eve of actress Fenella Fielding's 90th birthday. As a performer who was evidently proud of her feminine attributes and aware of the power that came with them, I remain a touch unconvinced by her claims to almost complete naïveté.In the simple present, you cannot use either the past or future tense for verbs that follow the word mind.

However, this is not really a crafted biography/autobiography (which is what I expected) but actually transcripts of taped interviews that don't appear to be edited much at all. This sets up a hypothetical situation ("I smoked") and then makes a statement about that depends upon it being true ("You would mind") even though it is not true (this is the counter-factual conditional form; about things that are not true, and what would be consequent upon it if it was true). I tried to wait a couple days to see if I would feel better about Jenny’s sign, but I just couldn’t help myself.

My answer is that the American English alphabet doesn’t correspond one-to-one with the letters of the alphabet. Avoiding the present tense places more "distance" between the speaker and whatever he's talking about, which is a common feature of "deferential" statements/requests. That said, many people ignore this now and so you might also find "I was" used here by some native speakers. is the astonishing and often hilarious life story of a national treasure, told for the first time in a special edition hardback book to be published on the eve of actress Fenella Fielding's 90th birthday this November.

les gens qui fument et ceux qui ne fument pas) qui font partie intégrante ou, à l’inverse, sont exclues de la vie communautaire. This way of writing comes across as more Fenella, more authentic than a chronological description of events, because she was a great raconteur.This audiobook is the result of a long series of meetings with Simon McKay who asked many questions and received many answers. Département de médecine sociale et préventive, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Best known for her 1960s film appearances in classic comedies such as Carry On Screaming, Doctor in Clover, and Carry On Regardless, Fielding's sublime talents also brought her success in serious roles on the stage, including title roles in Hedda Gabler and Colette. Do you know how to improve your language skills❓ All you have to do is have your writing corrected by a native speaker!So if you want to make a question out of a conditional construction, you use subject auxiliary inversion of the matrix clause: Would you mind if I smoked? 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. 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. Unfortunately, many of our favourites are now gone, but they are all still in our hearts and memories.