You use would when you are referring to the result or effect of a possible situation. Ordinarily it would be fun to be taken to fabulous restaurants It would be wrong to suggest that police officers were not annoyed by acts of indecency It would cost very much more for the four of us to go from Italy
{f} helping verb for use in a question, request or expression of desire (used to make the statement more polite)
When would precedes a verb, it questions the absoluteness of the verb and makes the verb conditional
would WEAK STRONG Would is a modal verb. It is used with the base form of a verb. In spoken English, would is often abbreviated to 'd
politeness You use would, usually in questions, when you are politely asking someone to do something. Would you come in here a moment, please? Oh dear, there's the doorbell. See who it is, would you, darling. = could
You use would to say that someone was willing to do something. You use would not to indicate that they refused to do something. They said they would give the police their full cooperation She indicated that she would help her husband He wouldn't say where he had picked up the information
You use would to talk about something which happened regularly in the past but which no longer happens. Sunday mornings my mother would bake. I'd stand by the fridge and help = used to
Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present
You use would not to indicate that something did not happen, often in spite of a lot of effort. He kicked, pushed, and hurled his shoulder at the door. It wouldn't open He kept trying to start the car and the battery got flatter and flatter, until it wouldn't turn the engine at all
politeness You use would, usually in questions with `like', when you are making a polite offer or invitation. Would you like a drink? Perhaps you would like to pay a visit to London
If you say that someone would have liked or preferred something, you mean that they wanted to do it or have it but were unable to. I would have liked a life in politics She would have liked to ask questions, but he had moved on to another topic
You use would, or would have with a past participle, to indicate that you are assuming or guessing that something is true, because you have good reasons for thinking it. You wouldn't know him His fans would already be familiar with Caroline It was half seven; her mother would be annoyed because he was so late
You use would have with a past participle when you are saying what was likely to have happened by a particular time. Within ten weeks of the introduction, 34 million people would have been reached by our television commercials
The statistic "Earned Run"; a run that was scored without the aid of an error by the fielding team that is charged to the pitcher responsible for allowing the runner that scored to reach base
section of a hospital where people which emergency medical conditions are treated; name of a famous American television series that is staged in a Chicago hospital
The ER is the part of a hospital where people who have severe injuries or sudden illnesses are taken for emergency treatment. ER is an abbreviation for `emergency room'. Er is used in writing to represent the sound that people make when they hesitate, especially while they decide what to say next. I would challenge the, er, suggestion that we're in third place. Eritrea (in Internet addresses). emergency room. The symbol for the element erbium. Used to express hesitation or uncertainty. emergency room. a sound you make when you do not know exactly what to say next (A representation of the sound)
Explicit Rate: The Explicit Rate is an RM-cell field used to limit the source ACR to a specific value It is initially set by the source to a requested rate (such as PCR) It may be subsequently reduced by any network element in the path to a value that the element can sustain ER is formatted as a rate
Entity-relationship diagram; used in the context of system modeling and business modeling to describe database and data-store structures; these structures are called ER models
Oestrogen receptor A protein on breast cancer cells that binds oestrogens It indicates that the tumour may respond to hormonal therapies Tumours with plenty of ER have a better prognosis that those which do not
stands for ErinRachel, who was a fellow member of a Pern Fandom club called Ridges of Pern We were on the DRW Weyrleaders and on BoD together and left at about the same time
Rütbesi olmayan asker, nefer: "Düşman erleri arasında Fransızlar da vardır."- S. Birsel. İşini iyi bilen, yetenekli kimse: "Sanat eri çalışır, bir eser kor ortaya, onun güzel olduğuna inanır, o güzelliği herkesin anlamasını, kavramasını ister."- N. Ataç