I would like to understand this sentence more.
" I told you, nothing would happen between us because you are married."
So, is there any difference if I say: "I told you, nothing will happen between us because you are married." Do both have same meaning? What that first exactly means, because that would confuse me little. Thanks for help ;-)
They are very similar but they don't mean the same thing. Let me set a scene:
A man and a woman meet. They like each other. She is married. The man says to her "I know we like each other, but I want you to know that nothing
will happen between us because you are married".
She is a little disappointed, perhaps, but decides to wait and see what happens.
They are friends for six months (just a random timescale). At the end of the six months, she says "I can't believe it. We've been friends for six months, we like each other, but
nothing happened between us".
He says "I told you nothing
would happen between us because you are married".
So at the beginning of the story, the man is making a prediction about the future. At the end of the story, the future is now the present and he is reminding her that six months ago, his prediction was that nothing would happen. He was right. Nothing happened.
In this story, "would" behaves a little like the past tense of "will" now that the timeframe which used to be in the future is now in the past!
