milky  +  418311 Fri, 14 Sep 07 02:43 AM What's the difference in use between these? He met the woman he later married, He met the woman he would later marry. milky Joined on Thu, Jan 15 2004 Senior Member 3,149 Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".

	Goodman  +  418400 Fri, 14 Sep 07 06:35 AM The bulk meaning is the same. But I prefer the first. He married her later. it's a fact. The second one " he would later marry" some how drawsa few questions in my mind.  Goodman Joined on Mon, Nov 7 2005 Senior Member 3,816 The name says it all!

	Yoong Liat  +  418639 Fri, 14 Sep 07 06:59 PM  Milky wrote: What's the difference in use between these? He met the woman he later married, He met the woman he would later marry. The first sentence is straighforward past tense, while the second is "the future in the past". Yoong Liat Joined on Mon, Sep 4 2006 Veteran Member 6,757 Tenses, Past Tenses