Changing the course of the river would cause serious environmental damage to the whole valley. I was curious to know what would happen next. The chief's son would inherit all his dominions. …

The meaning of WOULD is —used in auxiliary function to express plan or intention. How to use would in a sentence.

In the present we use 'will' to talk about willingness (willingness means that you are happy to do something). For example, if we say 'I will help you', this means 'I'm offering to help you' or 'I'm …

Use would as a simple past verb to express willingness in past-time situations. When using the negative form, we usually use the contraction wouldn’t.

Yes, “would” is the past form of “will”, but it has various other uses too, which have nothing to do with the fact that would is the past form of “will”. So, I want to put emphasis on this point and …

Would is another verb with multiple senses. Sometimes, it is the past tense of will but only under certain conditions. Would describes something that was in the future at the time of the original …

(used to express the future in past sentences). He said he would go tomorrow. (used in place of will, to make a statement or form a question less direct or blunt). That would scarcely be fair. …

When talking about the past we can use would to express something that has not happened at the time we are talking about: In London she met the man that she would one day marry. He …

2025年7月2日 · We use will to express beliefs about the present or future: We use would as the past of will, to describe past beliefs about the future: I thought we would be late, so we would …

We use would to refer to typical habitual actions and events in the past. This is usually a formal use and it often occurs in stories (narratives): I had a friend from Albany, which is about 36 …