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Friday, 15 July 2022

'Dare' As Finite vs Event


The unmarked Mood tag of the first clause is dare they?
The unmarked Mood tag of the second clause is would they?

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 574): 'risk doing', 'venture to do'.