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Pructus Posted 12 years ago
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Would have thought
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In the passage below, The underlined part...
“He would have thought” means “He thought”, or “He had thought”, the actual happening, not a conditional?
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The town of Hocksley was small, located in a remote part of Northumberland, along the eastern coast just south of Scotland. Not many tourists came through their area and there weren't many residents, so he felt positive that he would find the killer.
Laying the knife on his dresser, Erik started to undress, moving with a bone-tired weariness brought on by more than the coming of dawn.
Every time someone he cared about died, a piece of him died with them. He would have thought that by now there would be nothing left, yet the ache in his chest over Sedrick's death told him differently.
Despair filled him as he thought of his life, now measured by the number of loved ones lost rather than by the passing of years, and the thought of ending it all flashed through his head with the same intense longing it did every day just before dawn. (Lord of the night; Popp, Robin T.; 2008)
In the passage below, The underlined part...
“He would have thought” means “He thought”, or “He had thought”, the actual happening, not a conditional?
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The town of Hocksley was small, located in a remote part of Northumberland, along the eastern coast just south of Scotland. Not many tourists came through their area and there weren't many residents, so he felt positive that he would find the killer.
Laying the knife on his dresser, Erik started to undress, moving with a bone-tired weariness brought on by more than the coming of dawn.
Every time someone he cared about died, a piece of him died with them. He would have thought that by now there would be nothing left, yet the ache in his chest over Sedrick's death told him differently.
Despair filled him as he thought of his life, now measured by the number of loved ones lost rather than by the passing of years, and the thought of ending it all flashed through his head with the same intense longing it did every day just before dawn. (Lord of the night; Popp, Robin T.; 2008)
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pructus He would have thought” means “He thought”, or “He had thought”, the actual happening, not a conditional? In actual contextual meaning, it seems to be sort of in-between: he sort of thinks that, but his heart is thinking differently.
- pructus He would have thought” means “He thought”, or “He had thought”, the actual happening, not a conditional?
- In actual contextual meaning, it seems to be sort of in-between: he sort of thinks that, but his heart is thinking differently.
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pructusHe would have thought” means “He thought”, or “He had thought”, the actual happening, not a conditional?In actual contextual meaning, it seems to be sort of in-between: he sort of thinks that, but his heart is thinking differently.
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Thanks a lot, Mister Micawber!!
With your help, though a little vague, I am beginning to see what it means....
With your help, though a little vague, I am beginning to see what it means....
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