If there's a situation where I can speak either English or Arabic, I would choose English.
I know that I can break this sentence down to smaller and simpler sentences like "In some situations, I have the choice to speak English or Arabic. And I prefer speaking English" but I would like to use this long sentence that contains the conditional IF and the word either.
I think the rules are: "If(present), (future, will)" or "If (past), (would)". Now, I used present tense and then I feel it's better to use (would) instead of (will) but I don't know why?
Best Answer
What's correct is going to depend on the context. Here are some possibilities:
Hypothetical (it hasn't happened, but it might happen in the future)
Habitual past (it has actually happened often in the past)
Habitual present (it actually happens often at present)
Hypothetical future (it might happen in the future; a bit more likely than Hypothetical above)
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