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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Will/Would?
Which of these is grammatically accurate?
1)If you ever buy a car, what color would you want?
2)If you ever buy a car, what color will you want?
3)If you ever bought a car, what color would you want?
1)If you ever buy a car, what color would you want?
2)If you ever buy a car, what color will you want?
3)If you ever bought a car, what color would you want?
Top answer
3)If you ever bought a car, what color would you want? They can all be justified as sentences that might be said by a native speaker. 2) is rather awkward, though.
- 3)If you ever bought a car, what color would you want?
- They can all be justified as sentences that might be said by a native speaker.
- 2) is rather awkward, though.
- Here's another that is better than 1 or 2: If you ever buy a car, what color do you want?
- 3) is exactly correct grammatically.
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Anonymous Which of these is grammatically accurate?1)If you ever buy a car, what color would you want?2)If you ever buy a car, what color will you want?3)If you ever bought a car, what color would you want?They can all be justified as sentences that might be said by a native speaker. 2) is rather awkward, though. Here's another that is better than 1 or 2:
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This native speaker would express #1 as If you ever bought a car, what color would you want? I suppose there are others for whom your example sounds perfectly natural.
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