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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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Would

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.

  

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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.

  • 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.

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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

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