keannu
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- South Korea
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Is the reason why "would" can't be used for a past state that "would" can only denote actions, so it means "a big tree was one time and disappeared and later it was there, and disappeared, then third time,,fourth time, etc"?
ex)There used to be(would be(x)) a big tree in my neighbor's house.
ex)There used to be(would be(x)) a big tree in my neighbor's house.
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