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Enchanted Posted 18 years ago
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Would

Happy Saturday:

A girl is talking to a guy about this boyfriend's planning of taking her on vacation. The guy likes the girl but hasnt told her.
Girl:"He(b/f) says it'll be fun"
Guy:" yeah, it would be"

Why does the guy use would here?

Thanks,
Ench
  

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"A girl is talking to a guy about this boyfriend's planning of taking plan to take her on vacation. " Anyways. The guy should be using the future tense, and should say "yeah, it will be," but that would probably be overlooked in spoken English.

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  • "A girl is talking to a guy about this boyfriend's planning of taking plan to take her on vacation.
  • " Anyways.
  • The guy should be using the future tense, and should say "yeah, it will be," but that would probably be overlooked in spoken English.
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"A girl is talking to a guy about this boyfriend's planning of taking plan to take her on vacation. The guy likes the girl but hasn't told her."

Anyways.

The guy should be using the future tense, and should say "yeah, it will be," but that would probably be overlooked in spoken English.
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EnchantedThe guy likes the girl but hasnt told her.
Hi Enchanted

It sounds to me as if the guy means "Yeah, it would be fun if I were the one taking you on vacation (instead of your boyfriend)."

In other words, the guy uses "would" because he is thinking about an unreal future possibility (as in a conditional type 2 sentence).
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Hi, I think the sentence you used is about unreal present, not future, possibility.
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EnchantedGirl:"He(b/f) says it'll be fun"
As I see things, the words "it" and "fun" refer here to the future vacation: the probable one -- the one that is viewed as likely to be real in the future.
EnchantedGuy:" yeah, it would be"
Here, the word "it" also refers to the future vacation being fun, however the reference is not
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