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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

could / future or past in this context

A: We could post the job on the company website.
B: And advertise it in the newspaper, too.

You reading the dialog, two people are talking about the past event or the future event if we focus on "could" like the imagined situation sentences below?

1.
A: We could post the job on the company website...but we couldn't/didn't.
B: And advertise it in the newspaper, too. But we couldn't/didn't.

2, A: We could post the job on the company website.
B: And advertise it in the newspaper, too. Let's do both of them for it ,right now!
  

Top answer

B: And advertise it in the newspaper, too. The time frame of that dialog is #2 (corrected): 1. but we didn't .

— Mister Micawber

  • B: And advertise it in the newspaper, too.
  • The time frame of that dialog is #2 (corrected): 1.
  • but we didn't .
  • B: And advertised it in the newspaper, too.
  • But we didn't.
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moon7296A: We could post the job on the company website.B: And advertise it in the newspaper, too.
The time frame of that dialog is #2 (corrected):

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A: We could have posted the job on the company website...but we didn't.
B: And advertised it in the newspaper, too. But we didn't.

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moon7296We could post the job on the company website.
... the dialog, two people are talking about the past event or the future event if we focus on "could" ... ?
Future.
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could (do) can't be used in the meaning succeeded (in doing), so We could post the job doesn't mean We succeeded in posting the job
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