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17 January
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What is the difference between 1) "What will make you a unique individual?" and 2) "What would make you a unique individual?" ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 1) "What will make you a unique individual?" and 2) "What would make you a unique individual?" ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
My guess is, since "would" is conditional, the person in 2) is less likely to make efforts to get that feature to be unique.
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- English (US)
Your guess is correct. The meaning is the same in both cases, but 1 implies more certainty than 2.
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- English (US)
Your guess is correct. The meaning is the same in both cases, but 1 implies more certainty than 2.
- Japanese
@Alphonso_McCutchen Thanks! Can I ask you which one you personally prefer?
- English (US)
@Skippingpuppy To be honest, the context is weird here. Is the questioner offering to give something to the answerer to make the answerer unique? I would prefer 2 because I tend to use more polite forms.
If I’m interviewing someone and I want to know why that person is already unique, I would probably ask “What makes you a unique individual?”
- Japanese
@Alphonso_McCutchen Thanks!
Actually, I found this question in this site, so I don't know how this was used. So, this question sounds like the interviewer is offering to give something? My guess was that the answerer is not a unique individual. I thought, if he is, the question would be like the one you noted.
Actually, I found this question in this site, so I don't know how this was used. So, this question sounds like the interviewer is offering to give something? My guess was that the answerer is not a unique individual. I thought, if he is, the question would be like the one you noted.
- English (US)
@Skippingpuppy The question could be a rhetorical device such as: “What would make you a unique individual? Learning a new language!” The question would be asking the answerer to consider what they need in order to become unique, then offer a solution. It really depends on the purpose of the question.
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