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Jackson6612 Posted 17 years ago
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What would you do in your spare time?

What is the difference in meaning between the given sentences?
1: What would you do in your spare time?
2: What will you do in your spare time?
3: What do you do in your spare time?

would is used to make a request, to ask for information in polite manner, or to show uncertainty about some future event. The use of would is considered more formal than will in situations described in previous sentence.
  

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Jackson6612 What is the difference in meaning between the given sentences? 1: What would you do in your spare time? This is not a polite request.

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  • Jackson6612 What is the difference in meaning between the given sentences?
  • 1: What would you do in your spare time?
  • This is not a polite request.
  • It is a hypothetical situation, so a conditional is necessary .
  • For example: If you had some spare time, what would you do ?
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Jackson6612What is the difference in meaning between the given sentences?
1: What would you do in your spare time? This is not a polite request. It is a hypothetical situation, so a conditional is necessary. For example: If you had some spare time, what would you do?
2: What will you do in your spare time? OK. The speaker knows that the pers
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would is used to make a request, to ask for information in a polite manner, to show uncertainty about some future event, or is used in case of hypothetical situations. The use of would is considered more formal than will in situations described in previous sentence.
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