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Tenjing Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

please check this conversation.

Jack: Hey Alex, why do you still live there? Just a week ago two people were shot and almost killed. It's really a dangerous place to live.
Rocky: That's why I wouldn't live there. Or. That's why I never live there??
Please explain.
  

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That conversation makes no sense. Rocky lives in a dangerous place. Jack asks him why he lives there.

  • That conversation makes no sense.
  • Rocky lives in a dangerous place.
  • Jack asks him why he lives there.
  • This conversation makes sense: Jack: Hey Alex, why do you still live there?
  • Just a week ago two people were shot and almost killed.
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That conversation makes no sense. Rocky lives in a dangerous place. Jack asks him why he lives there.

This conversation makes sense:

Jack: Hey Alex, why do you still live there? Just a week ago two people were shot and almost killed. It's really a dangerous place to live.
( a) Rocky: I don't have enough money to move.
( b) Rocky: My mother and sisters live there. Moth
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What I am trying to know is using 'would' properly. Even if someone gave me the money to live there, I wouldn't live there,I wouldn't live there, even if someone gave me a free apartment. Aren't these sentences correct? ?
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Those sentences are fine. However, they are not appropriate in your original conversation.
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My interpretation of the conversation is that there are three people involved.,ie Jack, Alex and Rocky.
Jack speaks to Alex.
Alex does not reply.
Instead, Rocky replies, agreeing with Jack that it is a dangerous place..

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tenjingThat's why I wouldn't live there. Or. That's why I never live there??
It's the first: That's why I wouldn't live there.

The other one makes no sense.

I never eat fish makes sense because you have a choice. You can have many opportunities to eat fish, but you never take the opportunity to do so. The same applies to tr
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CliveMy interpretation of the conversation is that there are three people involved.,ie Jack, Alex and Rocky.
You are right, I missed that.
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Thank you to Clive and Califjim a lot. Yes,there were three people involved and Clive got the exact meaning;Alex was silent there.

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