since I've heard/since I heard

[TheParser]

I also saw a lot of people use "would + bare infinitive" in daily conversation. what it really means and when to use it.

Jimmy,


If you will check the list of threads this morning, you will see a thread

entitled WOULD. If you click it on, the posts in that thread may answer

some of your questions re: would + bare infintive.

[snowwhiteY2K]

Jimmy,


If you will check the list of threads this morning, you will see a thread

entitled WOULD. If you click it on, the posts in that thread may answer

some of your questions re: would + bare infintive.

Could you please post that link over here.
I tried to search that thread but could not find it.
I would be very grateful if you could post it over here.

[TheParser]

Could you please post that link over here.
I tried to search that thread but could not find it.
I would be very grateful if you could post it over here.

Oh, I am much too stupid to know how to link. But it is now listed only four or five

threads below this thread. The title is simply WOULD.

[bhaisahab]

Could you please post that link over here.
I tried to search that thread but could not find it.
I would be very grateful if you could post it over here.

It's the tenth post down from the top of the first page of the "Ask a Teacher" forum.

[snowwhiteY2K]

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...988-would.html

This one.
Thanks.

[jimmy04]

[QUOTE=Raymott;853232]

I said, "This would be comparatively rare" because it's conditional. I meant "If I looked up the corpora ... If I did a study on this." Also, "If somebody actually said this ..."

Raymott, if you said it is conditional, type 2 of If clause named "Untrue in the present/future", isn't it? So you mean that this truly isn't comparative rare, don't you? It kind of doesn't make sense when it is supposed to be that you are pretty sure it is true.

By the way, I've just made a new thread about this issue. Hope everyone to help me out.Thanks