Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 1 AIL 0013 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Restatement Is a Syntax Problem
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The idea
Sonnet forty-four opens with a conditional: if flesh were thought, distance would not stop him. Sample question eight asks which restatement preserves that conditional, and the published answer keeps the "in that case" and the subjunctive. Tense and mood decide it.
In practice
Keep the mood, keep the tense.
Where people slip
Losing the conditional loses the mark.
Your place on the trail
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