Many languages allow for "fake" uses of their past tense marker: the marker: can occur in certain contexts without conveying temporal pastness. Instead it appears to bear a modal meaning. Iatridou ...

The conditional tense is used to talk about what would happen in the future. For example, "She would like to eat with me." To form this tense, start with the future ...

Food writer Russ Parsons, a regular contributor to this newspaper but still adjusting to Irish ways after moving here from California, was wondering on Twitter/X recently about one of our linguistic ...