The Future and Conditional of Probability

T HIS study was undertaken to discover three things: (1) whether the future (F) and conditional (C) of probability (P) can taught chiefly as a mode of certain verbs, especially the have and be verbs (tener-haber and ser--estar); (2) whether there is any correlation between particular FCP tenses and particular normal tenses, such as CP with imperfect rather than with preterite; (3) whether the dividing line between normal FC and FCP can fixed with accuracy. More or less satisfactory answers to these, and incidentally to other, questions came to light. The examples were culled from twelve Spanish and Spanish American authors and one magazine. The genres include verse, prose poem, drama, formal and informal essay, short story, and novel,' and cover slightly more than three thousand pages of text

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