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WOULD

shehan1212 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:37:12 GMT

In formal writing pepole use past simple tense.But i have seen many times books and other articles includes sentenceswhich have been made of "would"...I know that "would" is used in conditional clauses.Where as i realy want to know what are the situations where i can use "wolud" and please explain me whats the difference between "would" and "will".Can i use these two terms as the same meaning in formal writting?

what i want to know is this.please help me to find out this,iv beendying to get a answer which i expect,,
here,this is a sentence which i found in my text book.

"Under this method materials in concern WOULD BE stored in two different places in th company's storeroom"

so my question is this is a general fact.this is tru.so cant i use present simple tense?
"Under this method material in concern ARE STORED.."

Re: what is the difference?

Clive — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:44:09 GMT

Hi.

Please tell me the difference.

What will you do tomorrow?

What would you do tomorrow?

To me, the second sentence carries the notion of asking for his willingness to do something; whereas the first one seems to be asking straight forwardly (adverb?? OK) the question of what he will do tomorrow literally (I know, this is not a vocabulary help section but if you will allow me, "Did I use the word 'literally' correctly here?" I used it to emphasize the action of what he will do tomorrow.

You don't appear to me to have the right understanding here. Let's consider a few simple statements, before we try to deal with questions.

He is going to cook dinner tomorrow. This sounds like he has a plan.

He will cook dinner tomorrow. This can have various shades of meaning, eg a spontaneous decision, volunteering, prediction, an expression of determination, a logical deduction, a statemnt of routine. A very simplistic way of thinking about this is 'use will when there is no plan involved'.

He would cook dinner tomorrow. 'Would' gets you into the realm of conditional statements, statements of probability, etc.

Please consider these comments, and then reword your questions if you still have any. OK?

Best wishes, Clive

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Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:22:20 GMT

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Re: To Pedanticus

sextus — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:39:46 GMT

Hi MrP, howâs it going?

1) I finally thought of this possibility, which I reckon eliminates the problems:
âThus, it seems that we must not put the emphasis on the fact that a shadow always and necessarily follows a body when the body blocks light, but just on the fact that in these circumstances there has been a close connection between them. Sextusâ intention is then to emphasize that at least up till now the Skepticâs epoche has been closely followed by the state of ataraxia.â

2) âFor if Sextus thought that ataraxia [is][> was] by nature good and that epoche necessarily [entails][> entailed] it, he would certainly assert that epoche too [is][> was] something good in itself, since it would be precisely that state of mind which [brings][> brought] about ataraxia.â The point is that here Iâm using the second conditional and, as Iâm using the present everywhere when referring to Sextusâ point of view, I reckon I can keep the present. Is it clear what I mean?

3) âA common way of accounting for the texts in which Sextus seems to be espousing negative dogmatic views consists in applying to them some of the clarifications he sometimes makes.â
Could you think of a synonym for âclarificationâ? Maybe âelucidationâ?

Maybe youâre right about Borges. I donât know if you know that he was bilingual. I think one of his grandmothers was British. So he learned the language when he was a kid. He also knew a lot of English literature. Well, he knew about almost any kind of literature. But I believe itâs also possible to detect a strong influence of Spanish literature, not only in the subjects he treated, but also in the way of writing. By the way, thereâs a tale in Ficciones entitled âEl finâ, which you can only understand completely if you know âEl MartÃn Fierroâ by JosÃ© HernÃ¡ndez, an Argentinian writer from the 18th century. Itâs precisely a book about the âgauchosâ. The book is just excellent: itâs written in verse and itâs precisely the story of a âgauchoâ, but the vocabulary is quite difficult, even for us. Well, that tale intends to be the âendâ of the book. Maybe you already knew all that.

Cheers,

Sextus