Kibbitzer 66 | Hypothetical or Real? |
The following revision is taken from a text by a Korean-speaking student of Theology
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In the event Korea abandoned her traditions and ethics in a blind imitation of the system of others, not only would Korea have become spiritually and culturally subservient, she would even have risked beng deprived of her own soil on which to nurture democratic institutions | If Korea had abandoned her traditions and ethics in a blind imitation of the system of others, not only would she have become spiritually and culturally subservient, she would even have risked being deprived of her own soil on which to nurture democratic institutions. |
In the event Korea abandoned her traditions and ethics in a blind imitation of the system of others, and so became spiritually and culturally subservient, risking even being deprived of her own soil on which to nurture democratic institutions. |
For students with languages such as Chinese and Korean, with only a weak, or no, grammatical system for expressing hypotheticality, English, with its clearly marked options for expressing what is hypothetical.presents special difficulties. Typically, those difficulties result in one of the following:
10th November 1999 | Consultant: Tim Johns |
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