Do You Mind If I Smoke?: The Memoirs of Fenella Fielding

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Could it be that since these two sentences have apparently similar meanings, they are not really conditionals but rather a courtesy or polite way of asking permission and therefore the present or past is acceptable? Fenella Fielding is best known for her film appearances in Carry On Screaming (1966), Doctor in Clover (1966) and Carry On Regardless (1961). Having said this, there are some real gems here and the occasional insight into ‘an actor’s life’ that demonstrate that some of Ms Fielding’s fellow thespians weren’t the worthy good-guys the viewing public believed them to be – Norman Wisdom, as a case in point. Is it also true that the attorney/client privilege will prevent you from talking about anything that we discuss here today, unless I tell you that I am going to hurt someone in the future? That said, many people ignore this now and so you might also find "I was" used here by some native speakers.

The conventional Would you mind if I asked observes the sequence of tenses of type II conditionals (simple past in the if-clause, conditional in the main clause), and it's this which causes people to say that the version with the present in the if-clause is incorrect. I feel the need to make it clear that the intended context for the OP is what you normally would expect, i. I did listen to some of the audio version of this read by Fenella herself, which is much more enjoyable, and is perhaps the best way to experience her stories. That same night I drove back to the Café with two gallons of gasoline, a few old rags, and a box of matches.This audiobook is the result of a long series of meetings with Simon McKay who asked many questions and received many answers.

You see, when the kids ask me about a point in grammar and I explain it to them, next day they come up to me with things exactly like this. FENELLA FIELDING was born Fenella Feldman in 1927 in London to Russian and Romanian Jewish emigre parents. As Fenella says, in her unmistakeable and ever-alluring voice, "It's the best and worst bits of my life. I was also irritated by a repetition of several paragraphs, which should have been removed during editing. However I suspect that considerations of immediacy (the present seems more appropriate when the action is going to be immediate, perhaps), and informatlity so often cause people to use the present that it has become hard to label it incorrect.Much of the meaning and colour of such questions depends on the tone of voice and the manner of the speaker. 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.