>>>>>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.
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>>I think
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>>(1) since knew = past tense, then will must be a past tense too. Simple past of will is would
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>>eg: If I knew I would (past + past)
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>>(2) if present tense (know), use also present tense of will
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>>if I know I will (present + present)
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>>I suppose it's the same in Russian
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>It's not the same in Russian - I tried to translate these 2 phrases back in Russian - not that easy.
>
>Никогда не думала (past), что идиотская шутка повлечет (present) за собой изменение опций (!!! there is no actually Russian word I can think of to say "settings/preferences") в IE.


Если я вижу я его убьют (If I see it I will kill it)

Если я увидел я бы убить его (If I saw it I would kill it)

Translations from Bing - although I do not trust them