| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 24, 2003, 20:40 |
Markus Miekk-oja wrote:> > * IIRC "would" is related to "will" - its subjunctive form.I think "would" is actually the past tense of "will", just as "could" is the past tense of "can" and "might" is the past of "may". F. R. Palmer calls it the "modal-past".
| Joe <joe@...> |