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Jiří Atkarskij
Could you please help me and say whether my variants are possible? I checked my answers with the keys but maybe my variants may be acceptable in some cases? 1 Initial sentence: If they offered you the job, would you accept? My sentence: Should they offer you the job, would you accept? 2 Initial sentence: The management said it was important for us to wear dark suits to the meeting. Correct answer from the key: The management insisted on our/us wearing dark suits to the meeting My sentence: The management insisted that we (should) wear dark suits to the meeting. 3 I'd rather the children didn't/wouldn’t turn on the television without permission. - may I use wouldn't? if yes, what's the difference? Thank you in advance!!

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Yes. Some of your alternatives are perfectly acceptable, even though they do not match the answer key. For the first sentence: “If they offered you the job, would you accept?” Your version: “Should they offer you the job, would you accept?” This is grammatically possible, but there is a slight difference. “Should they offer you the job” means something like “If they happen to offer you the job” or “If they should offer you the job.” It sounds more formal and can make the possibility seem somewhat more uncertain. The original sentence uses the standard second conditional and presents the job offer as a hypothetical situation. For the second sentence: “The management insisted on our/us wearing dark suits to the meeting.” Your version: “The management insisted that we wear dark suits to the meeting.” This is completely correct. “The management insisted that we should wear dark suits to the meeting” is also correct, particularly in British English. After “insist,” we can use “insist on” followed by a noun or an ing form, or we can use “insist that” followed by a clause. So your answer is grammatically correct even though it uses a different structure from the answer key. For the third sentence: “I’d rather the children didn’t turn on the television without permission.” This is the normal choice. “I’d rather the children wouldn’t turn on the television without permission” is possible in some contexts, but it has a different feeling. “Wouldn’t” can suggest frustration about repeated or deliberate behavior. It can sound as though the children keep doing this and you wish they would stop. For example: “I wish he wouldn’t interrupt me.” This suggests that interrupting is a behavior that bothers the speaker. With “I’d rather,” however, “didn’t” is generally the safer and more natural choice when simply stating what you prefer someone not to do. So in an exercise like this, I would choose: “I’d rather the children didn’t turn on the television without permission.”

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