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Anglista2008 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Would or will?

Howdy,

Is this sentence correct?

1) They simply killed me, just like that, I won't be in the next episodes.

or should it be like this?

2) They simply killed me, just like that, I wouldn't be in the next episodes.

Which one is grammatically allright and why?

Thanks
  

Top answer

Both are correct. 1) ... I am not going to be in future episodes.

— CalifJim

  • Both are correct.
  • 1) ...
  • I am not going to be in future episodes.
  • ] 2) ...
  • I wasn't going to be in subsequent episodes.
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Both are correct.

1) ... I am not going to be in future episodes. [Future episodes are still to be seen.]

2) ... I wasn't going to be in subsequent episodes. [At least some of the subsequent episodes have already been seen.]

CJ
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so... "the next episodes" is inapropriate, right? and is it better to say "going to" instead of "will" ?

thanks!
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btw. how come no "the" in front of "future" ?
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Hi. Wouldn't there be any chance that this sentence with the modal "would," which was written by anglista2008, could be interpreted as a conditional sentence with an implicit (?) if-clause? I have studied various types of the modal "would" use and there seemed to be several types. And whenever I see this type of sentence, what comes up in my mind is that this could be a conditional sentence with
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CJ:
Aren't there comma splices in these sentences?
I would add the conjunction "and" ... and, just like that, I ...
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anglista2008so... "the next episodes" is inapropriate, right? and is it better to say "going to" instead of "will" ?
thanks!

1) As Jim has written, "the next episodes" is fine. The first sentence is expressed in the present, and "next episodes" are all the episodes that happen in the future.
The second sentence is expressed in the past, so w
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anglista2008"the next episodes" is inappropriate, right?
No. next is fine.
anglista2008is it better to say "going to" instead of "will" ?
No. Either one is fine.

CJ
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anglista2008 how come no "the" in front of "future" ?
No specific episodes are referred to, so I left it indefinite, i.e., no definite article. In other words, which particular episodes are meant is irrelevant; they are just "some episodes".

CJ
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AnonymousWouldn't there be any chance that this sentence with the modal "would," which was written by anglista2008, could be interpreted as a conditional sentence with an implicit (?) if-clause?
I don't hear it that way. I hear it simply as a variant of "was going to".

CJ
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AlpheccaStarsAren't there comma splices in these sentences?
Yes -- which makes it ambiguous to some extent. I would have "fixed" it in one of the following ways, grouping "just like that" with the previous clause:

..., just like that; so I ...
..., just like that. So I ...

..., just like that; I ...
..., just like that. I ...
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