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    what USEFUL 3 concept questions can be asked with these questions
    1. If I hadn't passed my exam, I wouldn't have gone to Cancun.
    2. I'm having my car repaired.
    3. I wish you wouldn't smoke so much.
    4.By this time next year I will have graduated.
    5. When he arrived at the station, the train had left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
    what USEFUL 3 concept questions can be asked with these questions
    1. If I hadn't passed my exam, I wouldn't have gone to Cancun.
    2. I'm having my car repaired.
    3. I wish you wouldn't smoke so much.
    4.By this time next year I will have graduated.
    5. When he arrived at the station, the train had left.
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    Hi. I am also struggling a little with similar questions. The one I am stuck on is - sorry I can't help anyone else at the moment.

    1. I wish you wouldn't smoke so much

    Could really use some help to clarify this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gerunds View Post
    Hi. I am also struggling a little with similar questions. The one I am stuck on is - sorry I can't help anyone else at the moment.

    1. I wish you wouldn't smoke so much

    Could really use some help to clarify this one.
    The person who is asking the question, does he want the person to stop smoking? Does he want the person to smoke less? Does he think that smoking is bad for the other person's health?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bhaisahab View Post
    The person who is asking the question, does he want the person to stop smoking? Does he want the person to smoke less? Does he think that smoking is bad for the other person's health?
    I'm not familiar with the use of "concept questions". Wouldn't it relate to the grammar rather than the pragmatics.
    For example, the concept behind the OP's question 5 is the sequence of past tenses.
    The concept behind
    1. I wish you wouldn't smoke so much
    is the use of 'would' after 'wish', rather than:
    I wish you won't smoke so much.
    I wish you don't smoke so much.

    Is that right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raymott View Post
    I'm not familiar with the use of "concept questions". Wouldn't it relate to the grammar rather than the pragmatics.
    For example, the concept behind the OP's question 5 is the sequence of past tenses.
    The concept behind
    1. I wish you wouldn't smoke so much
    is the use of 'would' after 'wish', rather than:
    I wish you won't smoke so much.
    I wish you don't smoke so much.

    Is that right?
    This is all I know about concept questions. Concept questions
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