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Clearly they were having a fight in Hypothetia.
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Originally Posted by Silver Gale
Okay, so explain to me the person I saw in the D having a spat with another. The second character hits the first with a chain, and the first one emotes "He would recoil from the pain in his arm", and a moment later "grabs other character by the arms and holds her up in the air".
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The entire thing isn't a universally accepted "rule". It's a vague convention. Of course you'll see people use it in ways that makes no sense! It's not math! :P
Originally Posted by Silver Gale
Okay, so explain to me the person I saw in the D having a spat with another. The second character hits the first with a chain, and the first one emotes "He would recoil from the pain in his arm", and a moment later "grabs other character by the arms and holds her up in the air".
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Heck, even math doesn't make sense sometimes, and those rules ARE written.
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Originally Posted by Bright Shadow
It's not math! :P
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I would kindly play some Bioshock.|
Originally Posted by LISAR
Would you kindly play some Bioshock?
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I would kindly play while listening to rock
Or would I play while wearing socks.
I do so love some Bioshock.
... Sorry.
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I don't really have an opinion about the RP usage of "would" but I do find it funny that you are going on about the usage of a particular past participle of "will" and can't get subjunctive case correct in your own example sentence.|
Originally Posted by Lord of Aardvarks
"He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if it wasn't raining."
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That quoted line should read:
"He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if it weren't raining."
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Weren't doesn't sound right in that sentence.|
Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
I don't really have an opinion about the RP usage of "would" but I do find it funny that you are going on about the usage of a particular past participle of "will" and can't get subjunctive case correct in your own example sentence.
That quoted line should read: "He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if it weren't raining." |
Hurray grammar.
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Sounds right to me. Hurray fail?
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Originally Posted by Pinny
Weren't doesn't sound right in that sentence.
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Actually, I believe "wasn't" would be the correct contraction to use there.
"Weren't" would be better used if the statement was "He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if they weren't afraid of getting rained on."
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Originally Posted by Lord of Aardvarks
"He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if it wasn't raining." Quote:
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LOL... All of you guys missed the fact that there is a inconsistency in tense in that sentence:
"He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if it wasn't raining."
should be;
"He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if it hadn't have been raining."
In casual speech, the "would have" would be shortened to "would'a" (or would've), and the "hadn't have been" would get shortened into "hadn't a' been" (but we're not supposed to write like that).
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