| 单词 | would |
| 释义 | would modal verb /wʊd/ Would is usually followed by an infinitive without ‘to’: A picnic would be nice. Sometimes it is used without a following infinitive: They didn’t do as much as they said they would. In conversation and informal writing, would is often shortened to ’d: I thought you’d like a drink before dinner. Would does not change its form, so the third person singular form does not end in ‘-s’: As a child, she would often run away from home. Questions and negatives are formed without ‘do’: Would you like a cup of coffee?He would not tell us his secret. The negative form would not is often shortened in conversation or informal writing to wouldn’t: I wouldn’t want to have your job. Would is often used in question tags: You wouldn’t lie to me, would you? Would has no tenses, no participles, and no infinitive form. There is no past tense, but would have followed by a past participle can be used for talking about actions that did not happen: She would have bought the house if she had been able to afford it (=she did not buy it). In some cases would can be used as the past tense of will, for example in indirect speech introduced by a verb in the past tense: I promised that I would visit her the next day.
phrases would modal verb /wʊd/ Would is usually followed by an infinitive without “to”: A picnic would be nice. Sometimes it is used without a following infinitive: They didn’t do as much as they said they would. In conversation and informal writing, would is often shortened to ’d: I thought you’d like a drink before dinner. Would does not change its form, so the third person singular form does not end in “-s”: As a child, she would often run away from home. Questions and negatives are formed without “do”: Would you like a cup of coffee?He would not tell us his secret. The negative form would not is often shortened in conversation or informal writing to wouldn’t: I wouldn’t want to have your job. Would is often used in tag questions: You wouldn’t lie to me, would you? Would has no tenses, no participles, and no infinitive form. There is no past tense, but would have followed by a past participle can be used for talking about actions that did not happen: She would have bought the house if she had been able to afford it (=she did not buy it). In some cases would can be used as the past tense of will, for example, in indirect speech introduced by a verb in the past tense: I promised that I would visit her the next day.
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