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ShaNap Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Would ????

In the next sentence:

"The assassination would become one of the key events of the century."

Is someone here talking about a future event or something that already happened?

I mean, is the sentence comes to describe an event that happened in the past or not yet?

Maybe someone can give a better example? Something more easy to understnd?

Thanks.
  

Top answer

ShaNap I mean, is the sentence comes to describe an event that happened in the past or not yet? Yes, that is exactly right. The modal "would" is used in the past time to refer to an event in the future (relative to that past time).

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  • ShaNap I mean, is the sentence comes to describe an event that happened in the past or not yet?
  • Yes, that is exactly right.
  • The modal "would" is used in the past time to refer to an event in the future (relative to that past time).
  • That event could be in the past relative to present time.
  • Example: When World War I ended in 1919, the terms of the peace treaty sowed such seeds of discontent that an even greater war would break out only twenty years later.
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ShaNapI mean, is the sentence comes to describe an event that happened in the past or not yet?
Yes, that is exactly right.
The modal "would" is used in the past time to refer to an event in the future (relative to that past time). That event could be in the past relative to present time.

Example:
When World War I ended in 1919, the terms of t
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