A little bit question about conjugation.
Hello there, I hope you are so good in this pandemic.
So, I was studying English when a (maybe basic) doubt turned up. The problem is, which of these sentences are correct "I was expecting that someone turn up" or "I was expecting that someone turns up"?. Personally I'd choose the second one conjugating the verb "turn" although I've read sentences like "It really screwed him up when he saw his friend get killed" where get isn't conjugated. Please enlighten me
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The phrase "I was expecting that someone turn up." is correct. The second sentence "I was expecting that someone turns up" would be understood, but is not natural phrasing. You could say, I was expecting that someone might turn up. If you wanted to use "turns", you could say: I hope that someone turns up. Or I expect that someone turns up. (Although this last sentence is a little weird to a native speaker. One might say I expect that someone will turn up, instead - since you are talking about something that will happen in the future.
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I was expecting that someone would turn up...or I was expecting that someone might turn up. Hey, I forgot to tell you, it would be more natural sounding to say, "I was expecting that someone might show up." The reason I'd use "show up" over "turn up" is because sometimes the news talks about how someone "turns up" dead. Turn up is ok but usually people would say, "show up" there.
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