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Hachi8 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

the door...

what do you think of / how do you feel for each of the sentences below?

"Somehow the door won't open."

"Somehow the door doesn't open."

I'm not sure the difference(s) between two of them. Help me, please?
  

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I suppose "won't" has a stronger sense that you (or someone) have tried and failed to open the door. With "somehow", the first sentence seems more likely to me.

— GPY

  • I suppose "won't" has a stronger sense that you (or someone) have tried and failed to open the door.
  • With "somehow", the first sentence seems more likely to me.
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I suppose "won't" has a stronger sense that you (or someone) have tried and failed to open the door.

With "somehow", the first sentence seems more likely to me.
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>GPY

Ohhh, I see!! Then, if the first sentence reminds you of that impression, do you think it's good to say "Somehow the door is not going to open." because the person seems to have tried to open the door before he/she said the sentence?
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hachi8>GPY Ohhh, I see!! Then, if the first sentence reminds you of that impression, do you think it's good to say "Somehow the door is not going to open." because the person seems to have tried to open the door before he/she said the sentence?
"Somehow the door is not going to open" does not seem a very common thing to say. "Somehow, I don't think the door
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i'm sorry that I'm asking many timesD;

But why do you think you need "I think" in the sentence including "be going to"??
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"The door is not going to open" is OK.

"Somehow the door is not going to open" doesn't sound very likely. I'm not exactly sure why. It may be partly to do with the contradiction between uncertain/questioning "somehow" and definite "not going to", but I don't think that's the complete answer.
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