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Hasibul Alam Posted 6 years ago
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Why writer only use “would” other than had or did?
“He’d owe Micah for the rest of his life for that.He’d gotten 190 on the PSATs.”
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e. looking into the then-future from a point in the past). In the second sentence, "he'd" = "he had", forming the past perfect tense.
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- looking into the then-future from a point in the past).
- In the second sentence, "he'd" = "he had", forming the past perfect tense.
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In the first sentence, "he'd" = "he would" is the past tense of "he will", expressing future-in-the-past (i.e. looking into the then-future from a point in the past).
In the second sentence, "he'd" = "he had", forming the past perfect tense.
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