A question to native speakers.
When you use ‘would’ in a sentence for hypothetical, do you imagine the sentence? Like, imaginary picture in your mind? I tend to have a imaginary picture. I am just curious about native speakers.
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mingmar do you imagine the sentence? I assume you mean imagine the hypothetical thing described in the sentence, not imagine the sentence itself. When one uses "would" to express a hypothetical, by definition one has to state (or imply) the thing that one is hypothesising, so I don't see how, in that sense, one can avoid imagining it.
- mingmar do you imagine the sentence?
- I assume you mean imagine the hypothetical thing described in the sentence, not imagine the sentence itself.
- When one uses "would" to express a hypothetical, by definition one has to state (or imply) the thing that one is hypothesising, so I don't see how, in that sense, one can avoid imagining it.
- I suppose how elaborate or vivid the "imaginary picture" is would depend on the context.
- An example of the kind of sentence you are thinking of might be useful.
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mingmardo you imagine the sentence?
I assume you mean imagine the hypothetical thing described in the sentence, not imagine the sentence itself. When one uses "would" to express a hypothetical, by definition one has to state (or imply) the thing that one is hypothesising, so I don't see how, in that sense, one can avoid imagining it. I suppose how elaborate
0mingmarWhen you use ‘would’ in a sentence for hypothetical, do you imagine the sentence? Like, imaginary picture in your mind? I tend to have a imaginary picture. I am just curious about native speakers.
No. After a lifetime of speaking English, you use 'would' instinctively in cases of posing a hypothesis and, more to the point, its result. So the
0mingmarWhen you use ‘would’ in a sentence for hypothetical, do you imagine the sentence?
No, I just produce it.
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