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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
tense dilemma
Hi,
Can you tell me how this works?
1)It was hard. It was during a tough time I was dropped out of college due to the pressure. I may have been too young. 1) We had moved our house. It was difficult. 2) I had married by then, and I was pregnant. I married a guy I knew for some time. He was funny. He worked for two years and changed the job.
No. 1 only tells me that their moving of the house occured before the main time frame (main-time frame with ahyphen??).
No. 2 is what baffles me: it seems to put the event of her marrying to the same time period as moving of the house. Then what? All back to a normal period? By then, I don't know if I am in the prior(??) main time frame (main-time frame with a hyphen??) or a new main time frame (main-time frame with a hyphen??) is established. Could it be said? that it doesn't matter -- time differentiation needs not be made. (after all, past is past and pp is used to turn back the clock for that part only??
2)He remarked that it must have seemed as if her promise would fail, or that her words came from a need, not from her heart.
Does this 'would fail' contain a sense of past conditional?
Can you tell me how this works?
1)It was hard. It was during a tough time I was dropped out of college due to the pressure. I may have been too young. 1) We had moved our house. It was difficult. 2) I had married by then, and I was pregnant. I married a guy I knew for some time. He was funny. He worked for two years and changed the job.
No. 1 only tells me that their moving of the house occured before the main time frame (main-time frame with ahyphen??).
No. 2 is what baffles me: it seems to put the event of her marrying to the same time period as moving of the house. Then what? All back to a normal period? By then, I don't know if I am in the prior(??) main time frame (main-time frame with a hyphen??) or a new main time frame (main-time frame with a hyphen??) is established. Could it be said? that it doesn't matter -- time differentiation needs not be made. (after all, past is past and pp is used to turn back the clock for that part only??
2)He remarked that it must have seemed as if her promise would fail, or that her words came from a need, not from her heart.
Does this 'would fail' contain a sense of past conditional?
Top answer
I'm sorry, but your conglomeration of poorly structured example sentences and confused numbers makes it unclear to me what you are asking. Nor are your following questions particularly lucid. I can tell you that 'would fail' is conditional 2, which is a present form.
- I'm sorry, but your conglomeration of poorly structured example sentences and confused numbers makes it unclear to me what you are asking.
- Nor are your following questions particularly lucid.
- I can tell you that 'would fail' is conditional 2, which is a present form.
- Perhaps if you revised and simplified your post, I could address your other concerns.
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I'm sorry, but your conglomeration of poorly structured example sentences and confused numbers makes it unclear to me what you are asking. Nor are your following questions particularly lucid. I can tell you that 'would fail' is conditional 2, which is a present form.
Perhaps if you revised and simplified your post, I could address your other concerns.
I'm sorry, but your conglomeration of poorly structured example sentences and confused numbers makes it unclear to me what you are asking. Nor are your following questions particularly lucid. I can tell you that 'would fail' is conditional 2, which is a present form.
Perhaps if you revised and simplified your post, I could address your other concerns.
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Thank you again.
Can you tell me how this works?
1)It was hard. It was during a tough time I was dropped (dropped -- better?) out of college due to the pressure. I may have been too young. 1) We had moved our house. It was difficult. 2) I had married by then, and I was pregnant. I married a guy I knew for some time. He was funny. He worked for two years and changed the job.
Can you tell me how this works?
1)It was hard. It was during a tough time I was dropped (dropped -- better?) out of college due to the pressure. I may have been too young. 1) We had moved our house. It was difficult. 2) I had married by then, and I was pregnant. I married a guy I knew for some time. He was funny. He worked for two years and changed the job.
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Can someone explain these to me these please.
Can you tell me how this works?
1)It was hard. It was during a tough time I was dropped (dropped -- better?) out of college due to the pressure. I may have been too young. 1) We had moved our house. It was difficult. 2) I had married by then, and I was pregnant. I married a guy I knew for some time. He was funny. He worked for two
Can you tell me how this works?
1)It was hard. It was during a tough time I was dropped (dropped -- better?) out of college due to the pressure. I may have been too young. 1) We had moved our house. It was difficult. 2) I had married by then, and I was pregnant. I married a guy I knew for some time. He was funny. He worked for two
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