He’ll be there until the new guy starts. No. Father thinks it’ll cost a lot of money to fix.
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4 WOULD WOULD: FORM
AFFIRMATIVE FORM
“would” comes first in the verb phrase after the subject and before another verb:
Dad would sing to us every evening.
Would cannot be used with another modal verb:
When Tracy opened the door, she thought she would find an empty
room. Not: … she thought she would might find an empty room. or … she
thought she might would find an empty room.
NEGATIVE FORM
The negative form of would is wouldn’t. We don’t use don’t, doesn’t, didn’t with would:
There wouldn’t be any food in the house.
Not: There didn’t would be any food in the house. We use the full form would not in formal contexts or when we want to
emphasise something:
Your father would not approve. QUESTION FORM
The subject and would change position to form questions. We don’t use do, does, did:
Would that be a good idea?
Not: Does this would that be a good idea?
Wouldn’t that be a good idea?
We can use would and wouldn’t in question tags:
She wouldn’t be any help, would she? They would enjoy that, wouldn’t they?
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WOULD: USES REQUESTS
We often use would to make requests. It is a more polite and indirect form of will.
Compare: Tabel 7 Will Would
Will you make dinner? direct
Would you make
dinner?
less direct
CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
We often use would or the contracted form ’d in the main clause of a conditional sentence when we talk about imagined situations:
If we had left earlier, we would have been able to stop off for a
coffee on the way.
If we went to Chile, we’d have to go to Argentina as well. I’d love to
see both.
TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE IN THE PAST
We use would to talk about the future in the past. The speaker looks forward in time from a point in the past underlined below:
When I was young I thought that in years to come I would be really
tall.
When I broke my leg, I thought I would never dance again. REPORTED CLAUSES
statement with will reported
‘I’ll pay for the food,’ said Tom.
Tom said that he would pay for the food.
Weather forecast:
There will be clear skies in the morning but it will be
cloudy for the afternoon. The weather forecast said that there
would be clear skies in the morning but that it would be cloudy for the
afternoon.