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Do ngoc tien Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

would ?

In a soccer match report:
The Argentine would clip home a brilliant third shortly after the hour mark, though Barca were not able to hold onto their clean sheet when Raul Tamudo poked home a consolation for Rayo with 20 minutes to go.
Why is "would" used in a past tense situation like this?What meaning does it add in the sentence ?
  

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This is a good question. It's not necessary to use would, like you said everything else is in the past tense. I think the writer was just trying to give some variation to his sentences.

— MrBen

  • This is a good question.
  • It's not necessary to use would, like you said everything else is in the past tense.
  • I think the writer was just trying to give some variation to his sentences.
  • I don't think it's being used incorrectly, but I don't think it really adds anything to the sentence.
  • " Here we can see an example of the "future in the past" where we have a perspective in the past (imagine you are "standing" at the time when they couldn't find a cutting edge) and the writer describes an action in the future of that perspective but still in the real past.
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This is a good question. It's not necessary to use would, like you said everything else is in the past tense. I think the writer was just trying to give some variation to his sentences. I don't think it's being used incorrectly, but I don't think it really adds anything to the sentence.

A little further down in the match report we can find an example of when it is used correctly:
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I got it,the writer just tried to give some variation,thank you ^^
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