Kazuo
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Hello!
A. Plane accidents would happen.
B. Plane accidents used to happen.
I introduce the two sentences as an example to express things which have happened from the past up to the present. But they sound as if accidents had happened to a considerable degree.
In order to express the rarity of plane accidents;
1. The addition of suitable adverbs such as rarely, seldom, hardly ever … etc.
2. There are other expressions in place of ‘would, used to’.
As for 1, no example sentences have been found yet other than on websites.
As for 2,
Plane accidents have rarely happened.
There have rarely been plane accidents.
Are there any other ideas, please, preferably not using adverbs?
Thanks in advance
A. Plane accidents would happen.
B. Plane accidents used to happen.
I introduce the two sentences as an example to express things which have happened from the past up to the present. But they sound as if accidents had happened to a considerable degree.
In order to express the rarity of plane accidents;
1. The addition of suitable adverbs such as rarely, seldom, hardly ever … etc.
2. There are other expressions in place of ‘would, used to’.
As for 1, no example sentences have been found yet other than on websites.
As for 2,
Plane accidents have rarely happened.
There have rarely been plane accidents.
Are there any other ideas, please, preferably not using adverbs?
Thanks in advance