Friday, May 31, 2019

Which is the most appropriate verb tense and mood for this text?


Access or use of this system without authorization or in excess of authorization either express or implied may subject violators to
criminal and civil action. On top of that we would probably call you names behind your back.





What tense and mood are required for "we would call"? Maybe "future unreal conditional plus continuous"? Should it be "we will call" instead?



I think there's some implied text:




On top of that,
if you were to access,
we would call names.





Looks like it might be a future modal (conditional)?



(Also, how might I have better asked this question? I don't feel the subject is descriptive.)

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