Timeline for Usage of "would" in future tense
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| Sep 29, 2017 at 15:53 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 15:32 | answer | added | Jeff Morrow | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jul 1, 2017 at 12:52 | answer | added | mike | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 1, 2017 at 10:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | In addition to Andrew's 'implied conditionals' (I'd add 'if the situation then were what we face now', which is not too well thought out but usually what people have in mind), the use of 'would' is more hedged, less challenging than 'will'. | |
| Jul 1, 2017 at 10:10 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Using would suggests if: "...if you were given the chance," perhaps; or "would you like to vote for". Just would on its own seems unidiomatic. | |
| Jul 1, 2017 at 10:08 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ |
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| Jul 1, 2017 at 10:02 | history | asked | santhosha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |