Vik-Nik-Sor
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- Oct 27, 2013
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- Russian
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- Ukraine
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- Ukraine
You use then at the beginning of a sentence or after `and' or `but' to introduce a comment or an extra piece of information to what you have already said.
We have to do quite a bit of reading, and then we have our ongoing work which would be an essay...
(Collins Cobuild)
I'm not sure what meaning the 'would' has here. The verbs "to have" are in the present tense, so, why is 'would' used?
Thank you.
We have to do quite a bit of reading, and then we have our ongoing work which would be an essay...
(Collins Cobuild)
I'm not sure what meaning the 'would' has here. The verbs "to have" are in the present tense, so, why is 'would' used?
Thank you.