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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Better than I thought y Better than I would have thought ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Better than I thought y Better than I would have thought ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.
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- Inglés (US)
"Better than I thought" is used when the outcome was possible to get.
"Better than I would have thought" is used when the outcome was really difficult or nearly imposible to get.
(You do an exam and you think you got 70/100 but end up gtting 80/100) "The was was better than I thought"
(You are studing for a physics exam and suddenly study a formula the teacher forgot to mention and it turns out that half the exam was based on that formula and when you finish the exam you say) "That went better than I would have thought".
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- Inglés (US)
"Better than I thought" is used when the outcome was possible to get.
"Better than I would have thought" is used when the outcome was really difficult or nearly imposible to get.
(You do an exam and you think you got 70/100 but end up gtting 80/100) "The was was better than I thought"
(You are studing for a physics exam and suddenly study a formula the teacher forgot to mention and it turns out that half the exam was based on that formula and when you finish the exam you say) "That went better than I would have thought".
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The examples I gave are bad but couldn't thing of any better, just remember "Better than I thought" uses the past of think.
While "Better than I would have thought" uses the past conditional.
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