Timeline for Confusion about the usage of 'would' in 'Why would you lie about that?'
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 18:49 | answer | added | Barid Baran Acharya | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 22:09 | history | edited | Jasper |
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| Nov 7, 2016 at 19:10 | comment | added | Ricky | It's the same as asking, "Why would anyone lie about their family?" Past conditionals of that kind denote something done on a general, past-present-and-future basis. | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 18:46 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/795336681905942528 | ||
| Nov 6, 2016 at 10:07 | comment | added | tum_ | A similar question being discussed here: Why would she do this? Have a look. | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 9:31 | comment | added | Lucian Sava | +1 for the context you found, a conditional that talks (asks in present) about a past event. I have never seen it in any grammar book. Nevertheless, many people would say you should have used past conditional, that is, why would you have lied about that, as the lie was told in the past. | |
| Nov 5, 2016 at 20:01 | history | edited | Em. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2016 at 19:55 | history | edited | Yazdan Samiei Poor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2016 at 19:43 | history | asked | Yazdan Samiei Poor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |