{"id":73619,"date":"2020-03-31T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T17:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73619"},"modified":"2020-03-31T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T17:02:16","slug":"modal-auxiliary-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/modal-auxiliary-would\/","title":{"rendered":"Modal Auxiliary Would"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Would<\/b>\u00a0is a modal auxiliary verb. There is no\u00a0<b>-s<\/b>\u00a0in the third person singular. Would is followed by an infinitive without\u00a0<b>to.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He said he\u00a0<b>would try\u00a0<\/b>his best to help me.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>would like\u00a0<\/b>to know what my duty is.<\/li>\n<li>The doctor said he\u00a0<b>would visit\u00a0<\/b>the patient.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions and negatives are made without\u00a0<b>do.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>you like some coffee? (NOT Do you would like \u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Would and Will<\/h3>\n<p><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>is a softer, less definite form of\u00a0<b>will.\u00a0<\/b>It is used in polite requests and offers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>would like\u00a0<\/b>to meet him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>can act as the past of\u00a0<b>will\u00a0<\/b>in indirect speech.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She said, \u2018I\u00a0<b>will\u00a0<\/b>not live here anymore.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>She said that she\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>not live there anymore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Would: Uses<\/h4>\n<h5>To make polite offers and requests<\/h5>\n<p><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>is often used in polite requests and offers. It is a softer, less definite form of\u00a0<b>will<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>you mind moving a bit?<\/li>\n<li><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>you mind sharing a room?<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>like to meet the manager.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Would can also be used to express an opinion in a more polite way without being forceful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is not what we\u00a0<b>would expect\u00a0<\/b>from a professional service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>To talk about past habits<\/h3>\n<p><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>can be used to talk about past events that happened often or always.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>always\u00a0<b>bring\u00a0<\/b>us nice gifts without telling why.<\/li>\n<li>The old man\u00a0<b>would recline<\/b>\u00a0in a corner and sleep most of the time.<\/li>\n<li>After dinner we\u00a0<b>would sit<\/b>\u00a0in a common room and chat for a while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>is often used to suggest that what happens is expected because it is typical, especially of a person&#8217;s behaviour.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>always\u00a0<b>trust\u00a0<\/b>the wrong person.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Ann rang to say that she was too busy to come.&#8217; &#8216;She\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>&#8211; she always has an excuse.&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>To talk about willingness and determination<\/h5>\n<p><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>can express willingness or a rather perverse determination.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He said he\u00a0<b>would try<\/b>\u00a0his best to help me. (Willingness)<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>would bet\u00a0<\/b>on that horse, though I asked him not to. (Determination)<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>have her own way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Wouldn&#8217;t<\/b>\u00a0shows unwillingness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I asked him to move his car, but he said he\u00a0<b>wouldn&#8217;t.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>To talk about imaginary situations<\/h3>\n<p><b>Would<\/b>\u00a0is sometimes used to refer to a situation that you can imagine happening.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>would hate\u00a0<\/b>to miss the show.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>would go\u00a0<\/b>myself but I am too busy.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<b>would have been\u00a0<\/b>quite boring to sit through the entire speech.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Would and used to<\/h3>\n<p>Both\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0can refer to repeated actions and events in the past.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>would\/used to<\/b>\u00a0always carry an umbrella.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0can refer to past states; would cannot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0have an old Rolls Royce. (NOT I would have \u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Would rather<\/h3>\n<p><b>Would rather<\/b>\u00a0expresses choice or preference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She would rather die than marry him.<\/li>\n<li>They would rather go to jail than pay the fine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would\u00a0is a modal auxiliary verb. There is no\u00a0-s\u00a0in the third person singular. Would is followed by an infinitive without\u00a0to. He said he\u00a0would try\u00a0his best to help me. I\u00a0would like\u00a0to know what my duty is.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2411,2410,2413,1748,2412],"class_list":["post-73619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-auxiliary-verb-would","tag-modal-would","tag-using-would","tag-would","tag-would-uses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73620,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73619\/revisions\/73620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}