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Are these "would" conditional?
"to be maimed, a person would have to suffer permanent injury. Would the insurance company use the word mutilate?"
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Tara2 Are these "would" conditional? The first sentence could be recast as a conditional with approximately the same meaning, but it is not a conditional as written (as far as I can tell, given that the sentence does not start with a capital letter, suggesting that the start may be missing). It is not clear without more context whether, or to what extent, an implied condition is attached to the second sentence.
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Tara2Are these "would" conditional?
The first sentence could be recast as a conditional with approximately the same meaning, but it is not a conditional as written (as far as I can tell, given that the sentence does not start with a capital letter, suggesting that the start may be missing). It is not clear without more context whether, or to what extent, an
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