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Messier42 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

How are they different?

Your clothes will be done at 5 at the laundry.
Your clothes would be done at 5 at the laundry.

We need to buy a bottle of water.
We need to buy bottles of water.

How are they different?
  

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Your clothes will be done at 5 at the laundry. -- This is unacceptable as it stands; an 'if' clause is also required. -- One bottle We need to buy bottles of water .

  • Your clothes will be done at 5 at the laundry.
  • -- This is unacceptable as it stands; an 'if' clause is also required.
  • -- One bottle We need to buy bottles of water .
  • - More than one bottle
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Your clothes will be done at 5 at the laundry.
Your clothes would be done at 5 at the laundry.-- This is unacceptable as it stands; an 'if' clause is also required.

We need to buy a bottle of water.-- One bottle
We need to buy bottles of water. - More than one bottle
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If the laundry shop owner work on the clothes fast, your clothes would be done at 5 at the laundry.
What about this?
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If the laundry shop owner worked on the clothes fast, they would be done at 5 at the laundry.

Good!
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If the laundry shop owner worked on the clothes fast, they would be done at 5 at the laundry.
This means that the shop owner failed to work on the clothes in time, causing the clothes to be washed at 5.
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messier42This means that the shop owner failed to work on the clothes in time,
No, it offers a future possible scenario.
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A : "If the laundry shop owner worked on the clothes fast, they would be done at 5 at the laundry."
B : "Let's time it so that we can arrive at the laundry shop around 5".
-- After arrving at the shop--
C : "I am sorry. I had a lot of backlog to finish the others", " I could not finsh your clothes"
A: "If he had worked on the other clothes fast, they would have been done at 5"
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messier42Am I understanding "would" correctly?
Absolutely!
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What abou this one? What's the difference between them?

"If the laundry shop owner worked on the clothes fast, they would be done at 5 at the laundry."

"If the laundry shop owner work on the clothes fast, they will be done at 5 at the laundry."
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If the laundry shop owner worked on the clothes fast, they would be done at 5 at the laundry.
If the laundry shop owner works on the clothes fast, they will be done at 5 at the laundry.

The second is for a more likely scenario.

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