Word
there'd
Phoneticsthered
Definition
pron. a short way of saying 'there would' or 'there had'. You use it to talk about a situation that might happen or something that happened in the past.
pron. a contraction of the existential 'there' combined with the auxiliary 'would' or 'had'. The specific meaning is determined by the following verb form: a bare infinitive indicates 'would', while a past participle indicates 'had'.
Examples
“I thought there'd be more people at the party.”
“If we had known about the traffic, there'd have been no reason to leave so early.”
“The architect suggested that there'd be significant structural challenges if the client insisted on adding a glass roof to the historical wing of the museum.”
Examples
simple
“I thought there'd be more people at the party.”
contextual
“If we had known about the traffic, there'd have been no reason to leave so early.”
complex
“The architect suggested that there'd be significant structural challenges if the client insisted on adding a glass roof to the historical wing of the museum.”
Usage
Functions as a contraction in spoken or informal written English. When followed by 'be', it represents 'there would'; when followed by 'been', it represents 'there had'.
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