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Ravikumarkargam Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Simple Present Tense VS would

Hi,

My friend told me, my car battery had lost most of its life.
I gave the following response. Here my question is, should I use simple present like the second sentence in below or a sentence with WOULD like in first sentence below. Are both of them wrong?

WOULD be fine as long as it WOULDn't stop working on my drive in the night.
OR
It's fine as long as it doesn't stop working on my drive in the night.




Thanks,

Ravi
  

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will or won't in the original conversation: -- Your car battery is getting very weak. -- That won't (=will not) be a problem as long as it doesn't stop working while I'm driving at night. ______ would or wouldn't when talking about that conversation later: My friend told me that my battery was getting very weak, and I told him that it wouldn't (=would not) be a problem as long as it didn't stop working while I was driving at night.

— CalifJim

  • will or won't in the original conversation: -- Your car battery is getting very weak.
  • -- That won't (=will not) be a problem as long as it doesn't stop working while I'm driving at night.
  • ______ would or wouldn't when talking about that conversation later: My friend told me that my battery was getting very weak, and I told him that it wouldn't (=would not) be a problem as long as it didn't stop working while I was driving at night.
  • ______ CJ
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will or won't in the original conversation:
-- Your car battery is getting very weak.
-- That won't (=will not) be a problem as long as it doesn't stop working while I'm driving at night.
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would or wouldn't when talking about that conversation later:
My friend told me that my battery was getting very weak, and I told h
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However, if you want to show some doubt about whether it is really fine, you may use would as a present tense and say (in your original conversation):
-- That would be fine -- as long as it doesn't stop working while I'm driving at night.
But not:
... as long as it wouldn't stop working ...
You can't put the would in the second part -- in the as long
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