The sentence contains offensive content. 214 119 He was in trouble because his scholars would not study. WOULD is a modal auxiliary verb. Click on the arrows to change the translation direction. Your feedback will be reviewed. Would is used again for unreal or hypothetical situations in the 2nd and 3rd conditionals: 2nd Conditional: 'If I won the lottery, I would travel the world.'
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CK 1 2251010 That would fit. 3rd Conditional: 'If I had worked harder, I would have passed the test.'
would (v): to show the possibility of something; to ask for something Listen to all | All sentences (with pause) If we went to Chile, we’d have to go to Argentina as well. Add the power of Cambridge Dictionary to your website using our free search box widgets.Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.
CK 1 1886564 Who would care? The word in the example sentence does not match the entry word. Many of the sentences have audio, too. English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families The Word "Would" in Example Sentences Page 1.
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{{#verifyErrors}} The sentence contains offensive content. We use WOULD mainly to: 1) talk about the past 2) talk about the future in the past 3) express the conditional mood.
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but he A contest awhile back called for people to speculate what We are sympathetic to the laid-off workers, but no one She returned to the group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to listen, while waiting till it I, for my part, begged him personally most urgently and finally wrote him, but nothing Consider that on our retreat we have lost by fatigue and left in the hospital more than fifteen thousand men, and had we attacked this In Helene's circle the war in general was regarded as a series of formal demonstrations which He pushed forward, feeling stirred, but not yet sure what stirred him or what he But the big question is whether these same economics The theory was that life in the workhouse had to be worse than life outside the workhouse, otherwise it On the other hand, putting up with his volatile moods In such a hurry, she was bound to leave something behind that she But when Napoleon asked him whether the Russians thought they On the other hand, Katie had flatly refused to provide some information because she said Alex Much as she liked Sarah, the idea of Giddon's displeasure He told his wonderful story to the king; but the king I thought of the big fire in the queen's kitchen, and knew that the cook When he had finished, he bowed, and waited, hoping that he The amount of data stored is so vast that even if we put a number on it, it Calculating the actual, societal costs of fatty foods, alcohol, cars, pet ownership, mercury thermometers, air conditioning, solar panels, razor blades, jogging shoes, and ten thousand other things, and incorporating those costs in the prices as taxes Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman "If no one fought except on his own conviction, there The neighbors couldn't see into any of their windows, and they were far enough off the main road that the only traffic These soldiers guarded the streets of the town; they Well, we should have thrown both men into prison, and the treasure The great cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, which was begun before your birth, Could you have foreseen that the advent of a technology called "air conditioning" in homes Maybe it was inevitable at that point that some spark The machine should start looking for correlations we By the end of the four-month campaign, the White House A few such trees in the backyard behind your condo, cabin, or yurt If every job that could be done by a machine was done by a machine tomorrow, the standard of living of virtually everyone on the planet The best way to make a chair, known only by a few craftsmen, So yeah, if you told them to choose between working and not working, many I reasoned that if I could show how poverty will end, then of course hunger I always knew when she wished me to bring her something, and I From the beginning of my education Miss Sullivan made it a practice to speak to me as she That night, after I had hung my stocking, I lay awake a long time, pretending to be asleep and keeping alert to see what Santa Claus It is said that a flood-tide, with a westerly wind, and ice in the Neva, Most behave as if they believed that their prospects for life His moods flipped back and forth so fast it was hard to know how he But then, a party didn't seem like something Señor Medena If she was invited, it was as a guest of Alex, so he But if you could trust him this way and there was no electricity, On the other hand, when the issue finally came to a head, she "If it hadn't been for his sister, I probably still Of course, she could have used sign language, but that Not that one had anything to do with the other, but the technology of surrogacy Dulce motioned to Carmen from a hallway, so Carmen told Alex to take the children up and she If I didn't want to do what he said I'd tell him so - and he She clenched her hand and held it tight against her mouth so no sound No doubt he told them that Alexia had died, because after Jonathan's statement, that Mom used to say that people suspected in others what they had experienced or what they Certainly she had given him no reason to believe she Alfonso assured him that it was no big deal - that Señor Medena On the other hand, maybe he was simply surprised that Alondra He might never say anything to Jonathan about it, but Jonathan Whether we want to admit it or not, we all wish everyone She left him there to think about his actions - only he Sure, he'd had some rough times, but she had never done anything to make him think she If Katie hadn't disclosed that incident to her before she met Alex, In other words, when he shook himself free of his current family, he Alex had always taken care of his family, but was it irresponsible to assume he always He merely wanted to establish his authority, so the others He said Destiny's fever had broken and if she continued to improve, they After he recovered from the stabbing, the Doctor said he had scar tissue and I don't know what's been bothering you lately, but if I've done something, I wish you It doesn't matter to me one way or another, but I wish you No one knew what the future held, but if they faced everything together, surely they If she had stayed with her husband and they had more children, Lisa thanked her for all the help and assured her that she She wandered around the house with a foreboding that this was the last time she She should be looking for a replacement vehicle, but having another car in the garage Sometimes she imagined a large field of marijuana, but that The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historial usage.
would not as 'to refuse'