They took an umbrella with them. But I had some of them stay away from them. What is the likelihood of rain? Connect two sentences with a phrase in case of a real phrase in a question.
During the war, men took umbrellas with them. Is it going to rain?
What is the connection between these two sentences and the phrase in case?
Can you tell me
an umbrella you took with you in case it rained?
What makes the following sentence wrong?
When it rains, the boys took an umbrella with them.
What is some good, native English questions that many people should not be confused with.
In everyday conversation people are as likely to use all three constructions – rained, should rain and may rain as well as could rain and did rain – not that I am encouraging you to. (P.S.S.)?
Why the construction requires either rained or should rain and forbids might rain?
The book reviews indicated that while rained and should rain have juggled for top position down the years, rained has become much more popular than should rain – while might rain has now virtually dropped out of usage.
A number of questions have been posted on online forums concerning the Verb tenses to follow in case and you might find the following links useful although they don’t directly deal with your question.
Usages of “in case” together with “should” https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/in-case-you-should-would.htm 521437
https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=in+case+it+should+rain%2Cin+case+it+might+rain%2Cin+case+it+rained&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%20should%20rain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%
What is some good, native English questions that many people should not be confused with.
In everyday conversation people are as likely to use all three constructions – rained, should rain and may rain as well as could rain and did rain – not that I am encouraging you to. (P.S.S.)?
Why the construction requires either rained or should rain and forbids might rain?
The book reviews indicated that while rained and should rain have juggled for top position down the years, rained has become much more popular than should rain – while might rain has now virtually dropped out of usage.
A number of questions have been posted on online forums concerning the Verb tenses to follow in case and you might find the following links useful although they don’t directly deal with your question.
Usages of “in case” together with “should” https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/in-case-you-should-would.htm 521437
https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=in+case+it+should+rain%2Cin+case+it+might+rain%2Cin+case+it+rained&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%20should%20rain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%
What is some good, native English questions that many people should not be confused with.
In everyday conversation people are as likely to use all three constructions – rained, should rain and may rain as well as could rain and did rain – not that I am encouraging you to. (P.S.S.)?
Why the construction requires either rained or should rain and forbids might rain?
The book reviews indicated that while rained and should rain have juggled for top position down the years, rained has become much more popular than should rain – while might rain has now virtually dropped out of usage.
A number of questions have been posted on online forums concerning the Verb tenses to follow in case and you might find the following links useful although they don’t directly deal with your question.
Usages of “in case” together with “should” https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/in-case-you-should-would.htm 521437
https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=in+case+it+should+rain%2Cin+case+it+might+rain%2Cin+case+it+rained&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%20should%20rain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%
