Sentence examples for * the conditional from inspiring English sources

Is this still called the conditional?

Kander was shooting in the conditional.

These are known as the conditional probabilities.

Moments later, the conditional becomes final: "I'm folding my hand".

Tim interjected: "Actually, he used the conditional tense.

(Failure gets the conditional "would," but success the certain "will").

The key word is "should" — the conditional mood.

These defects reflect the conditional nature of Washington's assent to the exercise so far.

According to Daniel Levin Becker, Oulipians consider "literature in the conditional mood; not the imperative".

That was a luxury that Judge Roberts never allowed himself, invariably employing the conditional voice.

She used words like they were X-rays, like Joan Didion's sentences without the conditional.