Timeline for Could/could've- which of the two indicates that something has no chance of happening?
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| Feb 19, 2019 at 17:15 | vote | accept | Pleep Ploop | ||
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| Jan 18, 2019 at 20:53 | comment | added | Lambie | "Could/could've- which of the two indicates that something has no chance of happening?" Logic: neither of them. Neither includes a negative. | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 7:12 | answer | added | JK2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 18:00 | answer | added | urnonav | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 17:20 | answer | added | rcook | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 12, 2019 at 11:44 | comment | added | Rykara | You'd want to say "...we could go to that restaurant." (no have, and with go in the infinitive). It's not quite the same as saying "I wish" but it is implied that you want to meet since you're proposing a day and place. If you want to be more overt about the desire, you could say "I'd like it if you came over tomorrow. We could go to that restaurant." | |
| S Jan 12, 2019 at 8:30 | history | bounty started | Pleep Ploop | ||
| S Jan 12, 2019 at 8:30 | history | notice added | Pleep Ploop | Draw attention | |
| Jan 9, 2019 at 9:57 | comment | added | Pleep Ploop | @MichaelHarvey what would this sentence mean "If you came over tomorrow, we could've gone to that restaurant.", does this mean the same as the "I wish we could meet tomorrow.." sentence? | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 15:49 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | It sounds to me as if the intention of that sentence is the friend trying to get you to change your mind and using video games as an incentive. (Maybe it will be enough to get you to ditch whatever you were planning on doing instead.) | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 12:27 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | ""I wish we could meet tomorrow. I know we can't. We could've gone to that restaurant you've always wanted to go" -- yes, this is the way we talk about such things. | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 11:07 | history | asked | Pleep Ploop | CC BY-SA 4.0 |