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Please help me figure it out with this sentence.
Could you tell me if sentences like this one is grammatically correct and please give me some examples of how I can paraphrase it. Thank you in advance!
"The renovation done a year ago had set Andrew back a lot of money, but now his house looked almost equally with its neighboring rivals".
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Could you help me to paraphrase the following sentence?
"He and I having reconciled our differences, the project then proceeded smoothly"
As far as I know "having reconciled" is a part of the past participle form. But I don't understand: can I omit "having" or change it on "had"? The next sentence would have more sense to me: "He and I had reconciled our differences, and then the project proceeded smoothly". Thank you all in advance.
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Can someone explain it to me?
I read a book now, and I started noticing one confusing thing. I can guess the meanings of the following sentences, but I can't grasp why the author uses "would" instead of "will".
“I don’t think so,” I said. “What are they? What did you see?”
“You…you wouldn’t believe me.”
“Oh, yeah, I would,” I promised.
“I’ll deal with the school,” I promised, anxious to change the subject. “Honest, it’ll be fine.”
Annabeth wouldn’t even look at me. “I guess our afternoon is off. We should get you out of here, now that the police will be searching for you.”
“What’s this ‘other way’?” I asked Annabeth. “The thing Clarisse mentioned?”
She picked up a stone and skipped it across the lake. “Something Clarisse scouted out. I helped her a little this spring. But it would be dangerous. Especially for Grover.”
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Functions of modal verbs "would" and "could".
I know several uses of these modal verbs, but only one does bother me. I'm talking now about a possibility. Therefore, I have three question, I would be glad to be answered to.
1. Are these modal verbs being used to express a possibility in future?
2. (If 1st is true) Can I, for instance, interchange sentences "I could be there" - "I'm going to be there with the 50% possibility", and "I would be there" - "I'm going to be there with the 80% possibility"?
3. (If 2nd is true). Is it acceptable to use these modal verbs in formal conversations and writings, when talking about future possibilities, or they are only for colloquial English?
Thank you all in advance!
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Could you help me with articles?
"Such a name one expects to meet on _ fantasy book pages, but not in real life".
What article should I put here? Does it have to relate to "fantasy book" or "pages"?
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