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[Gorkem Atay]

1. ''You will get your money back''

I wonder whether you feel the sense of promise of this statement. I want to give a promise meaning to it without using the word ''promise''.


2. Another thing I want to ask you how I can understand it is a habit of she, I mean, I do not make a sentence which gives a meaning of future, it is just about her habit. How can I understand this is the habit of her, when I saw this sentence.

''She will sit and look at the sea''

 

[emsr2d2]

1. I would accept "You will get your money back" as a promise or a guarantee.

2. For habitual events, we use the present simple: "She [always/regularly/frequently] sits and looks at the sea".

 

[Gorkem Atay]

''I would accept "You will get your money back" as a promise or a guarantee''.

What meaning the ''would'' gives in this sentence? I always get in trouble to understand ''would'' meaning. It has lots of function.

 

[emsr2d2]

If someone wrote it, I would accept it as meaning a guarantee.
I simply meant "For me, that is the equivalent of a guarantee or a promise".

 

[Gorkem Atay]

I think so but, someone said me it does not make any sence using ''would'' alone.

For example:

''I would play football yesterday''

But you used it alone, may you explain the trick here that I do not know...

 

[emsr2d2]

What do you mean by "using 'would' alone"?

Your friend is right that "I would play football yesterday" is not grammatical. "Would" suggests possibility or the fact that you are prepared to do something. If you didn't play football yesterday, you can't decide the next day to it.

If it hadn't been raining, I would have played football yesterday.
If it weren't raining, I would play football. (present time)

 

[Gorkem Atay]

1. I would accept "You will get your money back" as a promise or a guarantee.

2. For habitual events, we use the present simple: "She [always/regularly/frequently] sits and looks at the sea".

I think, in here you used by saying ''I would accept....'' (Probably I am in a mistake but I just want to understand, because this usage of would always make me mad...)

 

[emsr2d2]

Do you understand the construction "If you wrote it, I would accept it"?

 

[Gorkem Atay]

Of course, this is called 'Type 2 conditional clauses', also the other example you gave is 'type 3' , I know their construction of them. And also I know their meaning...

 

[emsr2d2]

What I wrote is that exact sentence but I chose to leave out "If you wrote it ...".

 

[Gorkem Atay]

Oooh okay, now it is clear, but it is hard to understand for me. You could leave it out easily because we had talked about it just before, right?

And the last thing I want to ask is this : ''I would be very pleased to accept your kind invitation''. I saw this sentence at somewhere on a website and the sentence just this, again it does not make any sense on its own, doesn't it?

 

[emsr2d2]

"I would be very pleased to accept your kind invitation" is absolutely correct.

I don't think you're going to get to the bottom of "would" by posting random sentences on this forum. I suggest you knuckle down to some serious study using a good grammar book and plenty of exercises.

Modals are complicated!

 

[Gorkem Atay]

I am trying believe me, but at some point the book misdirect me! I feel inside me, something is wrong but I can not help myself. In here ''would be'' has a different meaning from that we had spoken. It is a construction like ''would prefer, would rather, would like'', they offer present I think, am I right? By the way thank you so much.

 

[MikeNewYork]

In my opinion, the three most complicated areas of English for learners are the use of articles, the choice of preposition, and the use of modal verbs. "Would" may well be the most complicated modal verb because of its multiple uses.