Volition, intention, determination (in affirmative and negative sentences)

I will readily help you.

"No, please go on!" Alice said very humbly: "I won't interrupt you again." (L.C.)

I said I would readily help you.

She said she wouldn't interrupt me ay more.

Note. This meaning can be combined with the expression of habitual or recurrent actions:

She would often come and discuss her affairs with us.

Refusal to perform an action

She won't tell us what has happened.

She wouldn't tell us what had happened.

When will is used with lifeless things it shows that they fail to perform their functions:

My pen won't write, give me yours for a moment.

It started raining, but his umbrella wouldn't open.

Persistence

I've been asking her not to bang the door, but she will!

I told them not to make a noise, but they would.

6.10.4. will, would are used in polite requests

Will you wait a moment?

Won't you sir down?

Would you tell us what it means?

Supposition bordering on assurance

This will be the house we are looking for.

There is no light in the window. She will have gone to bed.

I don't see any footprints. The snow would have covered them.

6.10.6. would can be used to express that something was to be expected

"I can't understand you." "No, you wouldn't. "

6.10.7. will and would can be used in adverbial clauses of condition to express volition

If you will stay I'll tell you everything.

I told him that if he would wait I'd tell him everything.

6.10.8. would can be used in object clauses after wish

I wish you would fall in with the plan.

Exercises

Exercise 41. Analyse the meanings of will, would. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. "Well," said the wife, "if you won't be king, I will." (V.W.) 2. His jaws wouldn't come together but he managed to mumble. "I slipped and fell," he said. 3. The man stood here in the shadow. Your brother would have noticed nothing till the blow fell. (A.Chr.) 4. He said that it would be a satisfaction to him, if Doctor Parker Peps would walk up-stairs again. (Ch.D.) 5. Then Faustus would pray, but cannot; and, in an agony of remorse and terror, he begs piteously for another day, another hour, in order to have more time for repentance… (F.A.L.) 6. The car wouldn't start, and could she drive him to the station in the Buick? (J.Ch.) 7. "Why doesn't he come? Oh, if Pa would only come home!" (M.Mit.) 8. On the particular afternoon to which I am referring, his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties. (K.I.) 9. Mr. Stevens, will you kindly look at the Chinaman behind you? (K.I.) 10. Miss Kenton, you are being quite ridiculous. Now if you will be so good as to let me pass. (K.I.) 11. I will remember to address your father by his full title in future. Now, if you would please excuse me. (K.I.) 12. They are kind people and though I have on more than one occasion offered remuneration for their hospitability, they will not hear of it. (K.I.) 13. Henry Maturin at first would not believe that the break was serious. (S.M.) 14. I say it's – it's too magnificent for words. I wouldn't miss this for anything! (E.Q.)

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