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Believer Posted 20 years ago
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the we'd Q

0If we have something written like this, "we'd", how would you know it means "00we would00" or "00we had00"?02br
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00Would you say that discerning the right usage would demand the knowledge of the rest of the sentences?0-
  

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0You have to use the context to know the meaning. 02br 02br 00"We would" seems to usually be a future tense. 0-

  • 0You have to use the context to know the meaning.
  • 02br 02br 00"We would" seems to usually be a future tense.
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0You have to use the context to know the meaning. Similar to how you figure out if the word "read" is present or past tense, you use clues from the rest of the sentence.02br
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00"We would" seems to usually be a future tense. "We had" tends to be past tense.0-
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0 Hi Beliver, i'll try to answer your question with examples. For would : i would be a doctor if i joined medical university. The second one for had : i had eat yesterday. You can contact me at<removed mod> Thx I'm from Indonesia 0-
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0 You would know immediately whether it's would or had by the verb which immediately follows. Words with present tense forms identical to its past participle forms are extremely rare, except for a few common words. It may be difficult to discern in reading, but when spoken, it's quite unmistakable, otherwise people will naturally modify it to avoid confusion..0-
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00Would you say that discerning the right usage would demand the knowledge of the rest of the sentence?12blockquote
10 Yes. If a past participle follows, the 01i00'd02i00 means 01i00had02i00; otherwise it means 01i00would02i00.02br
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