Can we use Could to express future tense? instated of Will/would?
e.g.
a) How we could change our plan tomorrow?
b) How we could recover our bill from him tomorrow?
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Can we use Could to express future tense? instated of Will/would?
e.g.
a) How we could change our plan tomorrow?
b) How we could recover our bill from him tomorrow?
Best Answer
will is about something that definitely will take place at some time in the future, whereas can is talking about the ability to do something.
When you put the how question word in front of it, it weakens the difference between the two, because the question is clearly about the method we will use, rather than whether it will happen / whether we are able to make it happen.
could and would are the past tense forms of can and will. If we use a past tense to talk about a future situation, this is called a backshift. A backshift is used to indicate that we are reporting what somebody else said, or that we are talking about a hypothetical situation.
Note that, when we ask a question, we invert the subject and the auxiliary verb: