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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

would or will

We have been running this show for two years. I am going to show you how our show would look like after a hundred years.

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We have been running this show for two years. I am going to show you how our show will look like after a hundred years.

Do the both will and would work?
  

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Anonymous Do the both will and would work? Before we get into that, note that you have made a rather bad mistake. how our show will look like ...

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Do the both will and would work?
  • Before we get into that, note that you have made a rather bad mistake.
  • how our show will look like ...
  • You cannot use "how" with "like" in this way.
  • You can write ...
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AnonymousDo the both will and would work?
Before we get into that, note that you have made a rather bad mistake.
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CalifJim AnonymousDo the both will and would work?Before we get into that, note that you have made a rather bad mistake. ... how our show will look like ... You cannot use "how" with "like" in this way.You can write ... how our show will look ... (without "like"), or you can write ... what our show will look like ("what" goes with "like").____________As for the question y
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The speaker is thinking at the time of speaking that the show might drop in twenty years. Can he still not say, I am going to show you what our show would look like after a hundred years? Thank you.
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AnonymousI tried to use would because we don't know if our show is going to last that long
You can't communicate that by using "would". "would" is a very small word, and it can't say that much.
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AnonymousThe speaker is thinking at the time of speaking that the show might drop in twenty years. Can he still not say, I am going to show you what our show would look like after a hundred years? Thank you.
It's very unusual to say that with "I'm going to show you", which is not very hypothetical. It doesn't sound right. But you could make it more clear tha
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CalifJimYou can't communicate that by using "would". "would" is a very small word, and it can't say that much.
It can, and it frequently does. We often use 'would' with an implied condition.

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fivejedjonWe often use 'would' with an implied condition.
That wasn't the point.

"would" doesn't say "we don't know if our show is going to last that long".

CJ
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That is the idead behind the implied condition.

'Would' does not explicitly say anything that is not uttered in the sentence. We use it because of what is implicit.
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fivejedjonThat is the idead behind the implied condition.'Would' does not explicitly say anything that is not uttered in the sentence. We use it because of what is implicit.
I was correct then?
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CalifJim AnonymousI tried to use would because we don't know if our show is going to last that longYou can't communicate that by using "would". "would" is a very small word, and it can't say that much. If you say I'm going to show you what this [will? / would?] look like in ____ years it doesn't matter how many years it is. It's the future, and you have confidently said t
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