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Umm... Do you insist that here, too, the speaker has evidence, at the moment of speaking, of the future event? (5) I'm going hit you. / I will hit you. (6) I'm not going to tell you. / I won't tell you. (7) I'm going to die. (= I will die, I lost all my hopes.) Hmm... I'm not sure....

, it will be strange? That is: (1') My nose is itching and I feel I will sneeze. (2') I've just seen a sad film and emotional feelings has begun to well up inside ... I will cry. (4') I will die (... it's evident from what the doctor said). > Yes, those do sound strange to me. Numbers 2 and...

Tell me how to indicate the future action I will inevitably carry out if the addressee accepts my offer of help - without using a modal. How about ... use some lexical expression: , for example. Don't forget, milky, you've said: >!

I don't think the "opportunity" meaning of "to get to do something" enters into this question, but rather "I've got to do something" meaning "I have to do something". I think that maybe only the British use the past tense of "I've got to do it": "I had got to do it" = "I had to do it". And...

Hi, MM, Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't think I am muddying the waters of hypothetical expression. There might be this nuance that differs its sense. Modals are intricated as well as interesting. Most of the time, I have to smile at it and let it just pass my brain. If I never asked, how would...

I don't think it would be wise to call it "opinion 'would'", Pastel. As you can surmise from Paco's comment and your own intuition, both 'will' and 'would' express opinions (with a little help from the 'if')--as do other modals, and I think you are just muddying the waters of hypothetical...

Hello MrP In the Japanese conditionals, we change the apodosis' expressions according to conditionals' reality. In the case the conditional is known to be rather unreal, we use an expression similar to English modal constructs in the apodosis, and when we judge neutrally about the possibility of...

Hello CJ Thanks for the reply. I googled the phrases "if I had/would have known that" and found about 10 % of people use "would have known" for "had known". What I'd like to know is the reason why those people are using "would have known" for "had known". The subjunctive past "had known" and the...

can we say until ise used with verbs that can be performed "for a certain time", whereas by the time is used with verbs that are performed "in a moment"? i.e. until + wait, run, study, walk, drive etc. by the time + finish, understand, send, start, arrive by the way, can we say "by the...

1. Use of present perfect tense and simple past tense Speakers of American English generally use the present perfect tense (have/has + past participle) far less than speakers of British English. In spoken American English it is very common to use the simple past tense as an alternative in...