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

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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.

I tried to wait a couple days to see if I would feel better about Jenny’s sign, but I just couldn’t help myself. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. My answer is that the American English alphabet doesn’t correspond one-to-one with the letters of the alphabet. And hence just as when it is not a question it is "you would mind if I smoked" (or "if I smoked, you would mind"), so as a question it is "would you mind if I smoked? Fenella Fielding seems like a terribly nice person from this, but to be fair not much of note happened in her admirable career to really warrant a biography.Avoiding the present tense places more "distance" between the speaker and whatever he's talking about, which is a common feature of "deferential" statements/requests. The same applies to smoked instead of smoke, which isn't really "past tense" there (it just means "not present tense, not here-and-now", because there are only two "tenses" in English). Could it be that since these two sentences have apparently similar meanings, they are not really conditionals but rather a courtesy or polite way of asking permission and therefore the present or past is acceptable?

FumbleFingers: If (1) is a polite/hesitant "request," why should it be considered a variant of " Do you mind. 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. As you say it seems to be a conditional, and I think in this case it does work as a conditional sentence.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. 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. 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. I explained to her the best I could why the apostrophe was needed between the Y and the S to show that she, the one and only Jenny, owned the café.

Would you mind…" makes it more immediately clear that you are starting a question, "If I smoked here, would you mind?If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links. As Fenella says, in her unmistakeable and ever-alluring voice, "It's the best and worst bits of my life.

Ainsi, nous considérons les apprentissages que les bancs publics nous permettent de faire pour mieux comprendre comment les pratiques liées à la santé sont influencées par ce qui peut être vu en y étant assis ou en observant ceux qui y sont assis. Neither Jenny nor the numb nuts sign maker happened to notice that the apostrophe was missing between the Y and S. Nonetheless, this is a charming account, in which the actress willingly shares her encounters with other celebrities from that generation. I ought to add the caveat that, as in most of these phrases, what is appropriate in some circumstances is less so in others.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. As a performer who was evidently proud of her feminine attributes and aware of the power that came with them, I remain a touch unconvinced by her claims to almost complete naïveté.