could be inflected to raise my smoking as a very remote possibility, even a hypothetical of the type I don't smoke but would you mind if I did? The question hypothesises one event coming first ("I smoked") and then asked whether it would then be true that now "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. 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.

les gens qui fument et ceux qui ne fument pas) qui font partie intégrante ou, à l’inverse, sont exclues de la vie communautaire. It is a warm, witty, and sometimes shocking look back over Fenella's extraordinary life with a host of famous and often unexpected characters from Kenneth Williams and Tony Curtis to Francis Bacon, Muriel Spark, and Federico Fellini.

My answer is that the American English alphabet doesn’t correspond one-to-one with the letters of the alphabet.

Glorious, gossipy reminiscences of a vanished showbiz world delivered in a breathless, intimate prose style that mirrors Fenella's familiar, dulcet, dark-brown tones.

As I was gifted this book by friends who know of my Gothic inclinations, theatre background and love of kitsch, this proved a perfect present. 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 loaded my pickup truck with my aluminum ladder, a bucket of black paint, and an old paintbrush I had out back in my shed. If it's a conditional, then how come it's not as idiomatic to say "If I smoked here, would you mind?

However, I am not a native speaker, so my solutions may be very rescricted to what you can find in a book on descriptive grammar. However, it seems that some will criticise "smoke" in such a sentence so if you want to have the least contentious answer it is certainly "would you mind if I smoked? LV4-26 has raised the interesting question that would you mind if I smoked could be an entirely hypothetical question. That same night I drove back to the Café with two gallons of gasoline, a few old rags, and a box of matches. Unfortunately, many of our favourites are now gone, but they are all still in our hearts and memories.

The element of courtesy, gentleness, or other qualitative aspect of the question comes entirely in the way the question is asked and the extent to which the listener feels that their opinion is genuinely being sought. The problem is that the sign is telling the public that multiple Jennys owned the café, which is just a bald-faced lie.