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 :)

  • @glimse
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    65 months ago

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

    • @fishos
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      5 months ago

      “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.

      • @[email protected]
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        135 months ago

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

        • @morphballganon
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          55 months ago

          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.”

      • @glimse
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        105 months ago

        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!