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What is the difference between how can you lie to my face? and how could you lie to my face? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between how can you lie to my face? and how could you lie to my face? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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They're saying the same thing in different tenses.
"how can you lie to my face" = you're lying right now. How are you lying so easily right now.
"how could you lie to my face" = you lied previously. How were you able to lie so easily
But both are saying "I am upset because you lied to me," it's just a difference of when the lie happened.
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What difference ? Only one of grammar. Both are used, in practice, as equals.
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@CC3 but first one is present tense and second one is past tense...
How is no different between both?
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They're saying the same thing in different tenses.
"how can you lie to my face" = you're lying right now. How are you lying so easily right now.
"how could you lie to my face" = you lied previously. How were you able to lie so easily
But both are saying "I am upset because you lied to me," it's just a difference of when the lie happened.
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@Burdock
As I mentioned, the difference is one of grammar. However, in practice, both are used as equals.
Dohyun : I was in church on Sunday.
Eunji : I saw you with my girlfriend on Sunday. How could you lie to my face ?
Dohyun : I was in church on Sunday.
Eunji : I saw you with my girlfriend on Sunday. How can you lie to me face ?
So, in use, in practice, because there is no difference in meaning, they are used interchangeably.
Obviously, you can see that the tense of the verb - the grammar - is different. So, that alters the "when" not the meaning.
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