Conditionals are used to express both real, likely and unreal situations. As a result, tenses used with them are not flat; they change. That is why the difference between ‘If I arrive’ and ‘If I had ...

A person could use the immediate future tense to say what they are going to do or what is going to happen. The conditional tense describes what someone would do or what would happen in the future. In ...

I was a bit taken aback by responses to my thoughts about short-term versus long-term thinking as libraries make decisions. I see libraries making practical trade-offs all the time without always ...