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Ask for help > Help with making a question.
Help with making a question.
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Telma Costa
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Help with making a question.
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Hi there, I �m a bit messed up. What should be the question to get this answer?: �We soon started chatting to a boy who said was 19. We would chat to him for an hour each
day. � I was thinking about �
�How long did they chat
to the boy every day? - But it just doesn �t sound right! :-( Can someone help me, please. Thanks
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16 May 2011
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maryse pey�
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Hi Telma,
in my opinion you are wrong with the auxiliary and the personal pronoun. I would write : How long would you chat to him (the boy) each day ?
hope this will help. good night dear. |
16 May 2011
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suhakhader
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Hello to all of you,
I agree with you, Maryse peye! |
16 May 2011
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helena2009
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�We soon started chatting to a boy who said was 19. We would chat to him for an hour each
day. �
What does would mean in the second sentence?
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16 May 2011
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Telma Costa
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Well, I didn �t write the text myself, but it seems to me that �would � is being used as a synonym for �used to �, ie, a repetead action in the past! Am I wrong? Thank you all for your help :-) |
16 May 2011
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maryse pey�
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well, I would say this conditional is a future habit in the past. The preterit of �started � in the previous sentence makes logical this future. |
16 May 2011
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helena2009
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Look at this :
We sometimes use would (rather like used to) when talking about habitual past behaviour: - Every weekday my father would come home from work at 6pm and watch TV.
- Every summer we �d go to the seaside.
- Sometimes she �d phone me in the middle of the night.
- We would always argue. We could never agree.
This quoation is from here.
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16 May 2011
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