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- I would never be able to do my homework without the internet.
Do we use 'would' to express the future in direct speech?
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would here is hypothetical. The speaker thinks the Internet will always exist. Compare this non-hypothetical sentence.
- would here is hypothetical.
- The speaker thinks the Internet will always exist.
- Compare this non-hypothetical sentence.
- I will never be able to do my homework without my computer.
- The speaker thinks this situation likely, eg his computer breaks down often.
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would here is hypothetical. The speaker thinks the Internet will always exist.
Compare this non-hypothetical sentence.
I will never be able to do my homework without my computer. The speaker thinks this situation likely, eg his computer breaks down often.
There are several ways to talk about the future, eg Future Simple tense, I will . . .
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0Omar Ahmed- I would never be able to do my homework without the internet.
Do we use 'would' to express the future in direct speech?
No. There is a hidden condition in your sentence, which I highlighted in blue, so the sentence is implicitly a second conditional.
If there were no intern
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