Difference between revisions of "Would"

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::3:00pm: boss meeting
 
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Barbara</span>:  Could you tell Liz that I won't be here for the dinner tonight, my flight is leaving at 8.  
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold;color:#307;">Barbara</span>:  Could you tell Liz that I won't be here for the dinner tonight, my flight is leaving at 8.  
<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Melissa</span>: Sure, I am seeing her this afternoon.
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#307;">Melissa</span>: Sure, I am seeing her this afternoon.
  
 
::4:00pm: Melissa runs into Liz at the coffee machine
 
::4:00pm: Melissa runs into Liz at the coffee machine
  
<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Melissa</span>:  Hi Liz... hey before I forget... Barbara asked me to tell you the she wouldn't be here for the dinner tonight because her flight was leaving at 8.
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#307;">Melissa</span>:  Hi Liz... hey before I forget... Barbara asked me to tell you the she wouldn't be here for the dinner tonight because her flight was leaving at 8.
<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Liz</span>:  Wow, you can still get flights out of New York?  I hope she makes it back safely.
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#307;">Liz</span>:  Wow, you can still get flights out of New York?  I hope she makes it back safely.

Revision as of 17:31, 15 April 2020

Would is a modal verb. As such, it is invariable, there is no other form of would. Historically it is the past tense of will and acts as such in reported speech.

3:00pm: boss meeting

Barbara: Could you tell Liz that I won't be here for the dinner tonight, my flight is leaving at 8. Melissa: Sure, I am seeing her this afternoon.

4:00pm: Melissa runs into Liz at the coffee machine

Melissa: Hi Liz... hey before I forget... Barbara asked me to tell you the she wouldn't be here for the dinner tonight because her flight was leaving at 8. Liz: Wow, you can still get flights out of New York? I hope she makes it back safely.