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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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Would

Using advanced artificial intelligence, the Army's virtual humans would look and act like people.


Is would second conditional here? If yes, how? Thanks.

  

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It is describing a hypothetical or imagined situation. If there is no explicit "if" carried over from a previous sentence then it isn't important to formulate an implied condition (if you did, it would be something like "if they existed / if we could build them", which doesn't add much value).

  • It is describing a hypothetical or imagined situation.
  • If there is no explicit "if" carried over from a previous sentence then it isn't important to formulate an implied condition (if you did, it would be something like "if they existed / if we could build them", which doesn't add much value).
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It is describing a hypothetical or imagined situation. If there is no explicit "if" carried over from a previous sentence then it isn't important to formulate an implied condition (if you did, it would be something like "if they existed / if we could build them", which doesn't add much value).

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