Do You Mind If I Smoke?: The Memoirs of Fenella Fielding

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Jenny gazed at me and turned her head a little bit to the right, the way a dog does when it hears a high-pitched squeal.

If you are in Australia or New Zealand (DVD Region 4), note that almost all DVDs distributed in the UK by the BBC and 2entertain are encoded for both Region 2 and Region 4. The question hypothesises one event coming first ("I smoked") and then asked whether it would then be true that now "you mind". So if you want to make a question out of a conditional construction, you use subject auxiliary inversion of the matrix clause: Would you mind if I smoked? But don’t worry, I won’t do it again, so your mouth will need to remain shut like a rat trap until the day the undertaker buries you deep in the earth and gives the earthworms the green light to have themselves a nice little lawyer buffet.In the later sentence, speaker is indicating though he/she does not think he/she is going to smoke but what if he/she does? These suggest that both forms are common enough in the language - something I'd say was true of BE too. You may use it in informal language, but either it is subjunctive or conditional, or whatever, it is NOT correct.

Indeed, it seems the "if" in the original sentence does make a difference, because it adds a conditional aspect which, consciously or not, prompts use of a (virtual? I now believe this item is out of print and may not be reprinted, so its unlikely this seller has any of tese books to sell, even though it is still listed as being available. here we have left the gentleness of the conditional form, and the question is almost expecting the answer no, and certainly making it quite hard for the other person to object.Best known for her 1960s film appearances in classic comedies such as Carry On Screaming , Doctor in Clover and Carry On Regardless , Fielding's sublime talents also brought her success in serious roles on the stage, including title roles in Hedda Gabler and Colette . My answer is that the American English alphabet doesn’t correspond one-to-one with the letters of the alphabet. Then striking out as a young adult: living alone, compromising situations - Fenella's friend telling her, "He'd have given you fifty quid if you'd walked on his stomach in high heels. it's worth the listen alone for the bits about her Carry On movies, but what stands out is someone far deeper and who has lived and met many famous people. Given that the text is based on a series of audio recordings where the actress talked about anything that came into her head, it’s reasonable to expect some of her stories to come out sounding like the transcript of an impromptu interview, but it’s a bit irksome that some basic chronology wasn’t used, as it would have given the book a more balanced feel.