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Viceidol Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

will/would have done

0＊I thought you 01b01font00would02font00 have finished02b00 this by now.02br
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00＊I thought you 01b01font00will02font00 have finished02b00 this by now.02br
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00Are these two sentences are the same? Thank you for taking your time answering my question.0-
  

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0 Sequence of tenses commands you to use "would". It is clear that the activity is not finished at the moment of speech. 0-

— Ant_222

  • 0 Sequence of tenses commands you to use "would".
  • It is clear that the activity is not finished at the moment of speech.
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0 Sequence of tenses commands you to use "would". It is clear that the activity is not finished at the moment of speech. 0-
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0 Hi,02br
00"will" wouldn't make much sense, since you are talking about something that was supposed to happen in the past or now (---> ...finished 01b00by now02b00).02br
00Anyway, after verbs like "thought" you should use past tenses (like: "I thought you were sick"), so the combination "thought" + "would" is the idiomatic one (it's extremely co
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00Google hits at the New York Times: 02br
00 0 from nytimes.com for "thought will have * by now"02br
00 630 from nytimes.com for "thought would have * by now"02br
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01b00thought02b00 (reported past) forces 01b00would 02br
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