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If I won/win the lottery, I would/will buy a car.

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tanguatlay
 
Reply Sun 4 Jul, 2021 10:06 am
If I win the lottery, I will buy a car.
If I won the lottery, I would buy a car.

1. Does the first sentence suggest that you have hope of winning the lottery?

2. Does the second sentence imply that you think you have no or little chance of winning the lottery?

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mommabear
 
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Reply Sun 4 Jul, 2021 03:24 pm
@tanguatlay,
First sentence is good English, second sentence isn't.

Possible variant of second sentence which is good English:

If I'd won the lottery, I'd have bought a car.

Possible also and also good English:

If I won the lottery, I will buy a car. (speaker doesn't know if he won or not).
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Mame
 
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Reply Sun 4 Jul, 2021 07:51 pm
@tanguatlay,
tanguatlay wrote:

If I win the lottery, I will buy a car.
If I won the lottery, I would buy a car.

1. Does the first sentence suggest that you have hope of winning the lottery?
NO. It does not suggest hope; it suggests intention.

2. Does the second sentence imply that you think you have no or little chance of winning the lottery?

NO... It's just the same thing in English in past tense. Or some kind of phrasal thing we have in English (stupid language!!)..

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