WOULD - different uses and key to exercises

                  WOULD

1. To express unlikely or unreal situations:

Ex. We wouldn’t be here if we had taken the right train.

2. To express a past hypothesis or regret:

Ex. I wouldn’t have failed if I had worked hard.

3. To express habitual past with active verbs:

Ex. As a child, I’d walk to school every day.

4. To express the future in the past:

Ex. She met the man she would one day marry.

5. To express a refusal:

Ex. The car wouldn’t start.

6. To give advice:

Ex. If I were you, I’d stop smoking now.

7. To introduce cautious opinions:

Ex. I’d say / I’d imagine he is a good colleague.

8. To make polite requests, and express wants and preferences:

Ex. Would you mind opening the window?

I’d like to leave now. I’d prefer to go by train.

9. Past of will (often in reported speech):

Ex. She said she would come.

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