Grammar usage
Rahul's competitive exams would start from 21st October.
--> would start on October 21st or would run from 21 October. (Corrected by Jeff, sir)
Is it will start on or would start on
sanjay
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Ravi bumped into me yesterday and told me about his meeting up with you on 10th. Rahul's competitive exams would start from 21 October (corrected original).
If Ravi told you about Rahul's exams, the conditional will work:
Ravi bumped into me yesterday and told me about his meeting up with you on the 10th, and that Rahul's competitive exams would start on 21 October.
But there's now a parallelism fault – the two things that Ravi told you need to be expressed using the same grammatical construction. You have a choice:
Ravi bumped into me yesterday and told me about his meeting up with you on the 10th, and about Rahul's competitive exams starting on 21 October.
Ravi bumped into me yesterday and told me that he'd met up with you on the 10th, and that Rahul's competitive exams would start on 21 October.
The final sentence above is the only way would will work. If Ravi didn't tell you about Rahul's exams, then you're stuck with will. Rahul's competitive exams will start on 21 October.
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answered Oct 04 '12 at 20:48
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Thank you so much, sir.
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If there were a conditional somewhere in this context that allowed for the possibility of date changes, then would would also be logical.
If the examination board were to change the date, Rahul's exams would start October 21.
start October 21/start on October 21 (AmE)
start on 21 October (BrE)
Note that st, nd, rd, and th are not included in dates.
The only circumstances that you can use ordinals in relation to dates is when you are referring to a day in isolation.
The exhibition will open on 15 December, and it will close on the 24th.
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edited Oct 03 '12 at 08:14
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Thank you very much.
No problem.
Sanjay, I think the original context was a conditional. In that case -- would. But otherwise it should be will.
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