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Do ngoc tien Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

shouldn't ?

Reading threatened an upset in the meeting at the Madjeski earlier in the season when 7 goals were scored in the opening 34 minutes, but there shouldn't be any such difficulties this time around.what's the diference when we use "shouldn't" instead of "will not be" in this sentence ? -instead of "there will not be any such difficulties this time around"
  

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Ha! That was a great match! The writer uses "shouldn't" because they are saying what they think will happen.

  • Ha!
  • That was a great match!
  • The writer uses "shouldn't" because they are saying what they think will happen.
  • They would use "will not" for things they are certain about.
  • For example, "Brian McDermott will not be involved on Saturday" because it's a fact that he's no longer the manager of Reading.
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Ha! That was a great match!

The writer uses "shouldn't" because they are saying what they think will happen. They would use "will not" for things they are certain about. For example, "Brian McDermott will not be involved on Saturday" because it's a fact that he's no longer the manager of Reading.

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