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Snowandcloud Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Can you help me with this sentence please ? thank you !
This sentence "Finally we convinced him of the problems that would appeare" Can i use the word "appeared" instead of "appear"? If not ,Why ?
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Finally we convinced him of the problems that would appear. No, would (a modal verb) requires the infinitive after it here.
- Finally we convinced him of the problems that would appear.
- No, would (a modal verb) requires the infinitive after it here.
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Finally we convinced him of the problems that would appear.
No, would (a modal verb) requires the infinitive after it here.
No, would (a modal verb) requires the infinitive after it here.
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But you COULD say "We convinced him of the problems that would HAVE appeared" (if he had followed that course of action).
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