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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

He suggested he would block...

He suggested he would block any progress to negotiations.

Is it possible to drop "would" in the sentence above and use subjunctive "block" instead?

  

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No.

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anonymous

He suggested he would block any progress to negotiations.

Is it possible to drop "would" in the sentence above and use subjunctive "block" instead?

It appears that the two "he"s are coreferential, so that makes no sense. Why would a person suggest to himself that he should do something?

As advice to another person, howeve

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