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LE HANH 2383 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

SHOULD OR COULD

Dear everybody

I saw a conversation as below:


A: Let use option A to solve the problem.

B: Well, If option A doesn’t work, my option B should do the trick


If I use "could" instead of "should" here. Both are possible? Does that "Should" means higher possibility than "could"?

  

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LE HANH 2383 If I use "could" instead of "should" here. What if I use "could" instead of "should" here ? Then you'll change the meaning.

  • LE HANH 2383 If I use "could" instead of "should" here.
  • What if I use "could" instead of "should" here ?
  • Then you'll change the meaning.
  • This should do the trick ~ I expect that this will do the trick.
  • This could do the trick ~ Maybe this will do the trick.
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LE HANH 2383If I use "could" instead of "should" here.
What if I use "could" instead of "should" here?

Then you'll change the meaning.

This should do the trick ~ I expect that this will do the trick.
This could do the trick ~ Maybe this

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Le Hanh,

You may be interested in my post on modal verbs at

CJ

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