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Originally Posted by siamtos
Could you help me?
1.I feel the following two expressions are quite discouraging and you should say otherwise.
a.If the sun should rise in the west, I would believe in our victory.
I feel this suggests "I" do not believe in the victory when the sun rises in the east as usual. And "I" should say "I believe..."
b.I wish you would get well soon.
Similarly, you should do without "would".
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It's been a while since I studied English grammar so I could be a bit rusty.
You need 'would' because you are hypothesising. If ____, I would ____. Omitting 'would' would be ungrammatical.
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2.May I ask if you can omit the that parenthesized as below?
What is quite interesting is (that) wild geese that are making a row look so small.
Thank you.
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'That' and any clause after it is modifying "what". You will need 'that' there, otherwise it would be ungrammatical.
In Japanese, "that" is not needed, just say the clause followed by the noun you are trying to modify.
魚を食べている猫
The cat that is eating a fish.
"that" here is modifying the cat while in japanese, since the clause, eating a fish comes before the word cat, it is understood that eating a fish is modifying the cat.