C1 · Lesson 21Grammar

Concession and hypothesis at C1

Grant a point and imagine a case in formal French: quand bien même + conditionnel; pour peu que, à supposer que, si tant est que + subjunctive; encore que; and the literary inverted hypothesis (serait-il, fût-il).

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