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Still not covinced! Sorry. But thank you anyway
Still not covinced! Sorry. But thank you anyway
Yes, in general, that sentence is wrong. You could (as others have) make a context for the sentence in the past-in-the-future. It's not a good candidate sentence for that though, and needs to be added to.Our original problem is with a sentence I found in one od Oxford's Advenced level coursebooks, namely 'Solutions Advanced'.
It says that the following sentence is ungrammatical:
* My parents would llive in a cottage in the country before they moved to the city center.
Possibilties of correction are: 1- Used to. 2- Lived. 3- Were living.
But my dilemma is in finding an argument to rule out 'Would' in that context. Why????