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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Would..

Today, our dishwasher door broke. My mom made me sit there for an hour straight, holding the door shut so it would work.

It would work.
Here, why is "would" used?
Because he wasn't sure how the methord would turn out to be?
  

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messier42 Today, our dishwasher door broke. My mom made me sit there for an hour straight, holding the door shut so it would work. "Would" is "will" in the past.

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  • messier42 Today, our dishwasher door broke.
  • My mom made me sit there for an hour straight, holding the door shut so it would work.
  • "Would" is "will" in the past.
  • I hold the door shut every time she needs it, so it will work.
  • (present) I held the door shut every time she needed it, so it would work.
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messier42Today, our dishwasher door broke. My mom made me sit there for an hour straight, holding the door shut so it would work.
"Would" is "will" in the past.

I hold the door shut every time she needs it, so it will work. (present)

I held the door shut every time she needed it, so it would work. (past)

I will hold the shut every ti
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