hii,

I am learning English for around 5 years and I still can’t comprehend the meaning of “would” and “count” in some context. are they just past form of “will” and “can”?

“would you like coffee” means a person is asking if you liked coffee in past? “I would do it” means I did it in past?

I really don’t understand since my language doesn’t have anything like those words.

Edit: Thank you for answering my naive question :)

  • fishos@lemmy.world
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    WTF NO! You suggested that bullshit? I wondered why everything was so goddamn clunky.

    “HE HAS”, NOT “HE HAVE”. And should be the ability.

    The way it’s written now sounds EXACTLY like someone who’s first language ISNT English trying to teach someone else English. It’s butchered terribly.

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      6 months ago

      No, they wrote “have” which I am saying is one of the issues with their comment

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        “He have” instead of “he has,” etc.

        Then you meant to write “‘He has’ instead of ‘he have’”. You wrote it backwards. Thanks for the downvote for YOUR mistake.

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          They didn’t write a mistake. They’re correcting the original comment and their correction is worded correctly.

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            The corrector was ambiguous about which version was the original and which version was the correction, as there are some [assumed words] that were left out and could be either “you said” or “it should be.” My initial reaction was the same as the heavily downvoted person above, because my brain filled in “it should be” as the assumed words, where most people seemingly filled in “you said.”

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          I probably should have worded it differently to be more clear but I was pointing out the mistakes so my grammar was correct.

          But speaking of mistakes, it looks like you just made your second one by implying I downvoted you!

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      I’m getting quite the laugh at someone getting this angry over their own lack of reading comprehension.

      I originally parsed their comment the same way you did, but I would have either asked for clarification or politely corrected them. Please be more respectful of others, there’s really no need to be so agressive.