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Leticia Pröllochs
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Is this sentence here below correct? And if so, which tense?
We’d help ourselves
2023年10月11日 14:23
解答 · 7
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It is short for: We would help ourselves and is correct. There are two possible meanings.
It could be part of a second conditional idea. (If we were invited to,) we'd help ourselves.
It could also be expressing a repeated action in the past. e.g. Growing up, mealtimes in our family were very informal - we'd help ourselves.
It's not possible to know which meaning is intended without context.
2023年10月11日
2
It's in the conditional tense. A "results" clause like this is usually paired with another clause that states a condition:
Even if no one else would help us, we'd help ourselves.
It could also be a complete sentence if the condition is contained in a question:
Q: What would you do if no one would help you? A: We'd help ourselves.
2023年10月11日
1
I don't think it is a tense. "Would" is a modal verb. All the modals take an infinitive and they never conjugate. There is no need to refer to a verb pattern that never conjugates as a tense. It makes little sense. If I were forced to call it a tense, I would call it past tense of "will" because, historically speaking, that is how "would" entered the English language. In Old English, the verb order would have been different: "We would ourselves to help", and once upon a time the modals were actual first-class verbs.
Another meaning of "we would help ourselves" is as follows. Imagine you are at a banquet where there is a lot of food on the table. If you take your own food, rather than letting someone else put it on your plate for you, that is called "helping yourself".
2023年10月11日
I want to learn herman can we practice with each other coz i cant pay for tutor
2023年10月12日
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