week eight

Question 1

Will vs Would

Answer 1

Will : “he will stop drinking”
= action is being situated in the future, but can bear many modal meanings

Would: “ he would stop drinking”
= the past future and/or modal “would” here can indicate a few things

Question 2

WOULD (will+ -ed ) ( time)

Answer 2

• modal auxiliary used to construct two different tense structures; can be used to construct the habitual past ( imparfait) ; or to say “used to”
  “ he would play soccer all day “ -used to
• also used to situate the future from a past time referent ( conditionnel )
  “ he said he would help me!”

Question 3

WOULD ( will + -ed) (modal )

Answer 3

• modal used to construct the English conditional mood, and so can be interpreted as a tentative/hypothetical variant of “will”

“Would you please open the door ?” = tentative would

” If I were rich, I would buy up dog shelters to fund them” = hypothetical would

Question 4

Would and the past future

Answer 4

• can be found in a variety of situation, including the habitual past, the future of the past, tentative statements, hypothetical statements, and is also often found in :
• subclauses : “I hoped it would work”
• in free indirect speech : “ she said she would be happy to help”
• determined by fate: “the boy who would be king”
• modal will in the past : with the same meanings that will can (desire, refusal,typical behavior)

Question 5

Would Have

Answer 5

• would + perfect : would used to express a counterfactual statement

unresolved relationship : I thought my kids would be over Harry Potter by now

counterfactual : If you had told her, she would have been more understanding

Question 6

Would + Perfect

Answer 6

three types of conditionals :

-past future perfect continuative

• past future perfect repetitive
• past future perfect indefinite

Question 7

would + progressive

Answer 7

• either expresses ongoingness or is used to remove the modal meaning of would :
• past future perf’ prog’ ( ongoingness) : “He couldn’t possibly have rung the doorbell. The dog would have been barking like crazy.”
• past future prog’ ( clarifying time, not modal, would ) : The email said the package would be arriving by Thursday.

Question 8

Will can’t be used …

Answer 8

• in subordinate time clauses introduced by conjunctions like “as soon as ; once; when”

“She told us to call her as soon as we (had) arrived.”
*as soon as we would (have) arrived.