>>>I'm playing with accelerators now - never knew stupid joke will lead me to trying to setup my IE.
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>>Did you mean : would lead me ?
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>Do you mean to say that this was an example where I should have applied "would" I always use incorrectly? I don't know why after all these years and your training I still can not remember the rules of will/would/should and mix them up constantly.


I think

(1) since knew = past tense, then will must be a past tense too. Simple past of will is would

eg: If I knew I would (past + past)

(2) if present tense (know), use also present tense of will

if I know I will (present + present)

I suppose it's the same in Russian