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Fuchsia Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Difference
a) If I show you this piece of paper and ask you to tell me what color it is, what will you say?
b) If I showed you this piece of paper and asked you to tell me what color it is, what would you say?
Could you tell me, if any, whether a difference of nuance between the sentences above exists? I assume that b) sounds more polite than a) because it's a hypothetical.
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" does not seem usual or very natural to me in such a context.
- " does not seem usual or very natural to me in such a context.
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The main difference that I notice is that "what will you say?" does not seem usual or very natural to me in such a context.
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