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An Jiyoung Posted 19 years ago
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would

She said the financing for the Second Avenue subway would be the second-largest federal expenditure ever on a single mass transit project.

On the above sentence, why a writer use "would"? what it means on the sentence?
  

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In indirect speech about the past the future changes as follows: will->would

  • In indirect speech about the past the future changes as follows: will->would
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In indirect speech about the past the future changes as follows:
will->would
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She said it would be ...
~ She said it was going to be ...

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