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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Would--A joke
An excerpt from a joke:
The car is dented up real bad. The first blonde tells the second blonde that the repair guy told her to blow into the tail pipe real hard and the dents would pop out.
Her girlfriend says "Duh ! You need to roll up the windows first!"
Is 'would' here an implied conditional (would pop out if one blows into the tail pipe)?
Shouldn't this be 'really badly' and 'really hard'?
Thanks
The car is dented up real bad. The first blonde tells the second blonde that the repair guy told her to blow into the tail pipe real hard and the dents would pop out.
Her girlfriend says "Duh ! You need to roll up the windows first!"
Is 'would' here an implied conditional (would pop out if one blows into the tail pipe)?
Shouldn't this be 'really badly' and 'really hard'?
Thanks
Top answer
'), but I can see it your way, too. -- In casual English, which this is, the original is OK.
- '), but I can see it your way, too.
- -- In casual English, which this is, the original is OK.
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Is 'would' here an implied conditional (would pop out if one blows into the tail pipe)?-- I think the past of 'will' in reported speech ('the repair guy told her...'), but I can see it your way, too.
Shouldn't this be 'really badly' and 'really hard'?-- In casual English, which this is, the original is OK.
Shouldn't this be 'really badly' and 'really hard'?-- In casual English, which this is, the original is OK.
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