Quick Grammar Poll

[dcseain]

X will would have y

What do you think of that verb construction?

And for those of you with a frame of reference, is that a reasonably accurate translation of Latinate future subjunctive tense?

Context: the Spanish words hubiere and hubieren, the singular and plural future subjunctive forms of haber and hay. Yes, i know the latter is a form of the former, but well, not everyone gets that.

Comments

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Hmm... sounds ungrammatical to me.

The Wikipedia construction is "If X should Y..." Does that work for your example?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

On the first pass, it looked ungrammatical, but I think it just needs a time marker.

"X will would have y by tomorrow" looks much better.

Actually, it still looks a little odd, but it sounds ok. Maybe it's a verb form I use in spoken but not written language. On the other hand, I'm not sure how else I could express the concept in writing.

[kody-wolf.livejournal.com]

Depending what the subject matter of "x" and "y" would be I guess you can add nouns in place of "x" and "y"... and you might get:

Applepie will would have apples - (no that doesn't sound right)
Bob will would have died - (possibly)
Cars will would have flown - (sound ok in a sentance)

my 2 silly cents.
~Kody

[maddogairpirate.livejournal.com]

I always took it as X will have Y, which is still subjunctive because you don't know if it'll turn out that way.