User talk:Filelakeshoe/style tips

"would become"

In my opinion this is not always wrong or to be avoided. It's "future-in-the-past" — at some point after the action being currently described, perhaps well after, he would become such-and-such. Became is not necessarily an adequate substitute, because it may be taken to imply that his becoming such-and-such was roughly contemporary with the events being described. --Trovatore (talk) 02:39, 3 May 2012 (UTC)