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Lunchbox Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
will/would
Q: What happens if I lose my library card?
A : Then you will have to pay for a new one.
Is this dialogue an example of a 1st Conditional sentence pair (something like, "If he gets here soon, I'll speak to him about it.") Should I use "Then you would have to pay for a new one" instead? I can't decide which one is better.
I know it's been discussed before, but well... I still don't quite understand it.
Thanks a lot!
A : Then you will have to pay for a new one.
Is this dialogue an example of a 1st Conditional sentence pair (something like, "If he gets here soon, I'll speak to him about it.") Should I use "Then you would have to pay for a new one" instead? I can't decide which one is better.
I know it's been discussed before, but well... I still don't quite understand it.
Thanks a lot!
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<Q: What happens if I lose my library card? > The same, but more hypothetical: Q: What would happen if I lost my library card? A : Then you would have to pay for a new one.
- <Q: What happens if I lose my library card?
- > The same, but more hypothetical: Q: What would happen if I lost my library card?
- A : Then you would have to pay for a new one.
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<Q: What happens if I lose my library card?
A : Then you will have to pay for a new one.>
The same, but more hypothetical:
Q: What would happen if I lost my library card?
A : Then you would have to pay for a new one.
A : Then you will have to pay for a new one.>
The same, but more hypothetical:
Q: What would happen if I lost my library card?
A : Then you would have to pay for a new one.
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