Meaning of “would” in “This is what I would realise after I got home”
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And this is what I would realise for sure after I got home from talking to the man on the bus.
Question:
The sentence is taken from the book "Yes Man". I don't understand whether "would realise" in the sentence is used in the past tense or something else.
What grammar rules are used in that sentence? Is is maybe future in the past?
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Sentence:
And this is what I would realise for sure after I got home from talking to the man on the bus.
Question:
The sentence is taken from the book "Yes Man". I don't understand whether "would realise" in the sentence is used in the past tense or something else.
What grammar rules are used in that sentence? Is is maybe future in the past?
grammar meaning-in-context
edited yesterday
Matt E. Эллен♦
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At the time the narrator is talking about (the bus journey?), the arrival home and the realisation were still in the future.
– Kate Bunting
yesterday
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Sentence:
And this is what I would realise for sure after I got home from talking to the man on the bus.
Question:
The sentence is taken from the book "Yes Man". I don't understand whether "would realise" in the sentence is used in the past tense or something else.
What grammar rules are used in that sentence? Is is maybe future in the past?
grammar meaning-in-context
edited yesterday
Matt E. Эллен♦
25.4k1488153
asked yesterday
SzkotSzkot
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Sentence:
And this is what I would realise for sure after I got home from talking to the man on the bus.
Question:
The sentence is taken from the book "Yes Man". I don't understand whether "would realise" in the sentence is used in the past tense or something else.
What grammar rules are used in that sentence? Is is maybe future in the past?
grammar meaning-in-context
grammar meaning-in-context
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Matt E. Эллен♦
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SzkotSzkot
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edited yesterday
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edited yesterday
Matt E. Эллен♦
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edited yesterday
Matt E. Эллен♦
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Matt E. Эллен♦
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asked yesterday
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At the time the narrator is talking about (the bus journey?), the arrival home and the realisation were still in the future.
– Kate Bunting
yesterday
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At the time the narrator is talking about (the bus journey?), the arrival home and the realisation were still in the future.
– Kate Bunting
yesterday
At the time the narrator is talking about (the bus journey?), the arrival home and the realisation were still in the future.
– Kate Bunting
yesterday
At the time the narrator is talking about (the bus journey?), the arrival home and the realisation were still in the future.
– Kate Bunting
yesterday
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At the time the narrator is talking about (the bus journey?), the arrival home and the realisation were still in the future.
– Kate Bunting
yesterday