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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Would take

The course would take me three years to complete, but I was determined to see it through.

I can't understand the meaning of the sentence exactly. I would have written that sentence as "The course took three years to complete, but I was determined to see it through". The use of "would take" confuses me.
  

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It's used to talk about the future while you were still in the past. At that time, you knew that it would be 3 years before the class was completed.

— BarbaraPA

  • It's used to talk about the future while you were still in the past.
  • At that time, you knew that it would be 3 years before the class was completed.
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It's used to talk about the future while you were still in the past.

At that time, you knew that it would be 3 years before the class was completed.
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I'm afraid this one requires an expert, which I am not.

"The course took three years to complete, but I was determined to see it through".

The verbs in both clauses are simple past tense, and the assumption is that the course was completed.

The course would
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This is what I think!
...take, took..example.

The course took three years to complete, but I was determined to see it through
took / past simple of take was / past simple of be / am
The course takes three years to complete, but
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