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#46 (permalink) Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:30 am Double use of "would" OK?

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(I should add that "distance" relates to how speakers want to present a subject, and not necessarily to how they privately regard it. So here, we have no way of knowing whether the speakers are desperately worried or entirely relaxed about T's likely response.)

Or if the speaker is lying etc., right? :wink:

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4. "What will you do when Theo finds out?" "I shall look very innocent and hope that he won't be too angry to give me a lift home."

("and hope" here = "and [I shall] hope".)

How would American English speakers say that?

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#47 (permalink) Mon Sep 22, 2008 23:29 pm Double use of "would" OK?

Molly wrote:

Or if the speaker is lying etc., right?

On the whole, speakers don't flag lies; except inadvertently.

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