Is there anything wrong in this sentence?
"I would go to work tomorrow if the buses were plying."
I know it is not wrong to use 'would' in hypothetical sentences in the past and present tense:
"I would finish the project by today if I were you."
"I would have made the necessary changes had I been the leader."
But what about the future tense, as shown in the first sentence?
Is it incorrect? And if it is, what would be the correct way to say it?
P.S: See what I did there? ;) :P
Answer
The use of would in the first sentence is grammatical, but it isn’t a future tense, and in speech it would normally occur as I’d. (The use of plying is a little strange. The normal colloquial word would be running.)
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