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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Could you help me with these ?

I will be bored in June .
I would be bored in June.
How are they different?

Buy 10,000 dollar worth of lottery tickets.
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"I will be bored in June" is stating what will happen (as far as the speaker believes). "I would be bored in June" needs more context to resolve the role of "would". It could be a conditional, or it could be the past-tense version of the first sentence, for example.

— GPY

  • "I will be bored in June" is stating what will happen (as far as the speaker believes).
  • "I would be bored in June" needs more context to resolve the role of "would".
  • It could be a conditional, or it could be the past-tense version of the first sentence, for example.
  • Buy 10,000 dollars worth of lottery tickets.
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"I will be bored in June" is stating what will happen (as far as the speaker believes).

"I would be bored in June" needs more context to resolve the role of "would". It could be a conditional, or it could be the past-tense version of the first sentence, for example.

Buy 10,000 dollars worth of lottery tickets.
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GPYBuy 10,000 dollars worth of lottery tickets.
Oops, that should technically be "10,000 dollars' worth".
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Do you mean "10,000 dollars worth lottery ticket"?
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messier42 Do you mean "10,000 dollars worth lottery ticket"?
No.

10,000 dollars' worth of lottery tickets.
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