Hello mam!.. this would still has been a dilemma for me for a long time 😶 please now please only you could get me out of this! I'll put my queries one by one. 1) Mm she *WOULD or WILL* be washing clothes right now (assumptions in the present moment without thinking or offhand ) 2) Mm..She *WOULD/MUST/WILL have been sleeping that's why she didn't open the door yesterday *( here also I'm making some assumptions but with firm logic because she didn't open the door so i want her to be in the positioned of sleeping 😅 I mean I don't know but we have to sometimes just have to say for the sake of SAYING for no reason why we're giving reason without proof but it just should not be illogical)* 3) Suppose i visited a palace with my friends and i see some pieces of jewelry of the queen now i say to my friend "Hey buddy look at this, how pretty the queen must have been or would have been when she wore/wears/or even would have wore" My dilemma and confusion is here I'm having to use modal in both clause i mean i feel like using here so I know i could be wrong so here i have "ZERO PROOF" seeing jewelery can i describe that situation i want to express it? 4 ) MUST NOT OR COULD OR CAN NOT ? "No he must not have been because last night he was out town" Or "No he could or can not have been because last he was out of town" Here i really can't recognise difference and even i don't think there should be any specific difference but still i have to understand all of these one by one 🙏 Thanks in advance 💯
Hi there, 1. You have used the phrase ‘right now’, it is referring to the tense present continuous, whereas “will be washing” refers to the future continuous. She is washing clothes right now - is the correct answer. If you want to use the future continuous which is used for actions in progress or a specific time in the future the sentence might look like 'she will be washing clothes later' OR 'she will be washing clothes at 5pm' 2. You are making an assumption about the past , so you can’t use ‘will’ as it refers to the future. This is only a suggestion, it is better to use the word MIGHT or MAY as MUST is a strong belief, 100 % confident that the person did this. - She might/may have been sleeping, that’s why she didn’t open the door yesterday 3. If you only imagine that you visit the palace, you can use the second conditional for expressing imaginative situations - How pretty the queen would be, (IF) she wore that jewellery. You might like to watch our videos about using conditionals to understand rules better. 4. Must not (mustn’t) is a direction not to do something, like you mustn’t walk on the grass in the park. If we are describing the past, we can’t use ‘can’. In this sentence “could not” is the right answer, - no, he could’ t have been there because he was out of the town last night. In this sentence we think that it's not possible that this happened. Hope this helps )
