I would hope that I would never have to prove my love of this country.
Do these woulds in the sentence have implicit conditions? Please explain.
anonymous Do these woulds in the sentence have implicit conditions? P What is the context? This is one possibility: Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, I would often hope that I would never have to prove my love of this country.
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anonymousDo these woulds in the sentence have implicit conditions? P
What is the context? This is one possibility:
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, I would often hope that I would never have to prove my love of this country.
anonymousDo these woulds in the sentence have implicit conditions?
The second 'would' certainly does, and all it takes is a little imagination to find it.
Under what conditions would the speaker have to prove his love of his country? He would have to prove this IF ... what?
CJ