Why "would"?

Hi,
Well,you should know that "would" can be understood without the use of "if clause".conditional type 2.
Example : you'd ( 'd = would) never know that my dad was rich.= If you met my dad,you'd never know that he was rich.

However, "would" in your sentence can be used to mean

Thank you for your reply, it makes sense now.

H.

You're welcome.Hope that what I sent you will be helpful.
My regards

Here I can say : You're welcome.Hope that what I sent you would be helpful.

Henry74Why is would there? Is this a subjunctive of sorts?

No. Here's a good rule to keep in mind. A verb phrase with "would" is never subjunctive even though it may imply the presence of another unstated clause which, if stated, would be in the subjunctive.

The example you cite is incomplete, so you haven't even shown us if there is a

Thank you both.
Sorry for my late reply, I was watching the Champions League semi-final.

@CalifJim

I'm sorry about that. The part that I left out didn't seem to affect the meaning of what I was asking about, but you're right, here's the whole thing:

You know, what you're going through is really really hard for any young woman, and it totally makes sense tha

Henry74The reason I mentioned subjunctive is becasue expressions like it makes sense that require one in my native language, and I just thought I'd ask, even though I knew that that probably wasn't one, at least according to my knowledge of the rules for subjunctive in English.

Good point. Yet another one of those many, many cases where the use of the subjunc

Let me ask others if my sentence is correct.I do know that hope is used for the future intentions,so I said I hope that what I sent you would be helpful NOT will be helpful because I don't intend to send you in the future, but I SENT you already.Maybe I'm wrong,so I need someone to correct my sentence.

everlastinghopeLet me ask others if my sentence is correct.I do know that hope is used for the future intentions,so I said I hope that what I sent you would be helpful NOT will be helpful because I don't intend to send you in the future, but I SENT you already.Maybe I'm wrong,so I need someone to correct my sentence.

The pattern with hope is as follows:

CalifJimI wrote a post in which I said that I hoped that what I sent would be helpful.

That's the other reason I originally had come up with to try and justify overlastinhope's use of would in his sentence, i.e. a case of backshifting based on the fact that he'd used sent. But that didn't sound right to me becasue the main clause was still in the