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Using the Spanish conditional simple to talk about a future in the past

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Using the Spanish conditional simple to talk about a future in the past

You make this construction unnecessarily complicated. The conditional is used here simply because even the future event is stated conditionally: so-and-so “would” do such-and-such. It’s a perfect parallel to the English conditional.

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Using the Spanish conditional simple to talk about a future in the past

You make this construction unnecessarily complicated. The conditional is used here simply because even the future event is stated conditionally: so-and-so “would” do such-and-such. It’s a perfect parallel to the English conditional.

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