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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Is ‘would’ used in the title of the video to show ‘past refusal’? I am just so curious.
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anonymous Is ‘would’ used in the title of the video to show ‘past refusal’? Yes. The fish refused to die.
- anonymous Is ‘would’ used in the title of the video to show ‘past refusal’?
- Yes.
- The fish refused to die.
- It's not literal, of course.
- It means It seemed as if the fish was unwilling to die .
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anonymousIs ‘would’ used in the title of the video to show ‘past refusal’?
Yes. The fish refused to die. It's not literal, of course. It means It seemed as if the fish was unwilling to die. And that is another way of saying the more scientifically accurate It took the fish an extraordinarily long time to die.
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