Use of the future tense

Question

I have come accross the following phrase. " ... como podrán ver ahorita." which is translated, - as you can now see-. Is there some reason why that would be preferable to saying "como se puede ver ahorita. "

Gracias por ayudarme,

Jim

Answer 1

This is not a definitive answer with any grammatical reference to back it up but perhaps 'using' the future tense, which is the equivalent of our 'will', could be a little more definite or positive and personal.

In fact it's probably not dissimilar to the feeling that you get from the English equivalents:

As you 'will be able to' see (cómo podrán ver)

vs

As you 'one can' see (ie. it's possible that 'one' can see but we're not saying that you necessarily can or will) (cómo se puede ver)

Just a thought anyway