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

Product Information

All that said, you certainly will come across people using the full present-tense "would you mind if I smoke". I climbed up on that ladder, dipped the brush deep in the bucket of paint, and slapped that gosh darn apostrophe where it belonged between the Y and the S, once and for all. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. 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? Fenella Fielding is best known for her film appearances in Carry On Screaming (1966), Doctor in Clover (1966) and Carry On Regardless (1961).

not very complimentary about a couple of well known comedy actors,and you have to guess who the gent is in one of the later chapters who had strange sexual peccadillos. Though I was initially only familiar with Fenella through her role in Carry On Screaming, I found her biography to be both informative and entertaining. I ought to add the caveat that, as in most of these phrases, what is appropriate in some circumstances is less so in others.I want to be buried in a nice plush coffin with red velvet inside, with a giant white fluffy pillow to cradle my dead head. If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links.

She was wearing a pink waitress uniform with a white apron, and she even had a little white hat poking up out of her poufy red hair. Having been delighted by her work on stage and screen, radio and recordings for my whole life, I really enjoyed these reminiscences. I busted the front window with the metal gas container, poured gasoline around the entrance, lit the rags, and threw the rags and gas containers inside through the broken window. We are playing linguistic games here, with a very mundane question that is never subject to anything like this degree of analysis. Actually, you could say that the [current] sentence is in the subjunctive tense, not commonly taught in English, unless you're learning a foreign language, like French, Italian, Spanish.

As Fenella says, in her unmistakeable and ever-alluring voice, "It's the best and worst bits of my life.

In the simple present, you cannot use either the past or future tense for verbs that follow the word mind. If there's an audio version of this, narrated by Fenella herself, of course, then I would much prefer that and it would get 5 stars from me. Spiced with star-studded anecdotes and personalized with moving stories about innocence and experience, the early struggles of an aspiring actress and later professional rivalries, Do You Mind If I Smoke?

Setting your Language Level helps other users provide you with answers that aren't too complex or too simple. I must admit that I'm finding it hard to make parallels between what you put here and the original question because you have "when" and the original has "if" and that makes a very big difference. I think I probably prefer the direct object "me" rather than an object phrase "my smoking" generally, so it is probably just to do with that.