Timeline for Confusion on temporal COULD
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| Apr 30 at 13:17 | comment | added | Lambie | I don't much like saying temporal versus hypothetical. There is no if, ergo it is not a hypothesis as there is when using if. This is reported speech due to said, as opposed to say. | |
| Apr 30 at 4:54 | comment | added | Ken | I see. Your conclusion that COULD in the sentence is temporal is based on your analysis of the grammatical structure, and I understand that. I feel, however, that my concern about the sentence being about a hypothetical scenario wasn't sufficiently addressed. In my understanding, the meaning of the sentence in question would dictate that it expresses hypotheticality instead of temporality. What is confusing me is that the structure, as you have explained in your analysis, seems to indicate that it expresses temporality instead. This is what I'm struggling to reconcile. | |
| Apr 29 at 21:05 | history | answered | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |