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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
difference in tenses
0 Hi, 02 br
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00 What is the difference? 02 br
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00 Kooyeen used these sentences in quotation marks: 02 br
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00 "She told me she would play the game tomorrow" 02 br
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00 "She told me she will play the game tomorrow" 02 br
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00 I feel no.2 is OK if the game hasn't started yet and will start 'tomorrow' of the time of speaking that line; whereas, no. 1 could very well mean the game should have started and finished before the time of the speaking. 02 br
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00 Is this conditional sentence which was written by Kooyeen in response to a post/inquiry correct? 02 br
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00 If I hadn't broken my leg last week, I would play the game tomorrow. But my darn leg is in a cast! Grrr... 02 br
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00 As Goodman seemed to have said in the tread named 'Condiitonal statement', do you say 'would play' in the present doesn't go with 'tomorrow' of the future?? 0-
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00 What is the difference? 02 br
02 br
00 Kooyeen used these sentences in quotation marks: 02 br
02 br
00 "She told me she would play the game tomorrow" 02 br
02 br
00 "She told me she will play the game tomorrow" 02 br
02 br
00 I feel no.2 is OK if the game hasn't started yet and will start 'tomorrow' of the time of speaking that line; whereas, no. 1 could very well mean the game should have started and finished before the time of the speaking. 02 br
02 br
00 Is this conditional sentence which was written by Kooyeen in response to a post/inquiry correct? 02 br
02 br
00 If I hadn't broken my leg last week, I would play the game tomorrow. But my darn leg is in a cast! Grrr... 02 br
02 br
00 As Goodman seemed to have said in the tread named 'Condiitonal statement', do you say 'would play' in the present doesn't go with 'tomorrow' of the future?? 0-
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02 i 02 br 00 will->would 02 br 00 in such reported speech, when switching to past. Read Swan, Practical English Usage. 0-
- 02 i 02 br 00 will->would 02 br 00 in such reported speech, when switching to past.
- Read Swan, Practical English Usage.
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0 2nd is simply not standard: 02 br
01 i 00 She tells me she will play the game tomorrow. 02 i 02 br
00 converted to past goes to: 02 br
01 i 00 She told me she would play the game tomorrow. 02 i 02 br
00 will->would 02 br
00 in such reported speech, when switching to past. Read Swan, Practical English Usage. 0-
01 i 00 She tells me she will play the game tomorrow. 02 i 02 br
00 converted to past goes to: 02 br
01 i 00 She told me she would play the game tomorrow. 02 i 02 br
00 will->would 02 br
00 in such reported speech, when switching to past. Read Swan, Practical English Usage. 0-
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01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 I feel no.2 is OK if the game hasn't started yet and will start 'tomorrow' of the time of speaking that line; whereas, no. 1 could very well mean the game should have started and finished before the time of the speaking. 12 blockquote10 No. Whether the game has started has nothing to do with
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