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CalifJim

For some reason your two most recent posts came out double so I deleted the extras.

anonymousA: You would think he would visit his parents once in a while.
B: You would think he would’ve have helped me yesterday with the assignment.
Is it possible to add ‘and he did’ at the end of the sentences above?

In both cases you can (theoretically), but it's not as likely that the speaker really meant it that way. You'd have to be there listening to the conversation to know for sure, but as isolated sentences it makes more sense to believe that the speaker is mentally adding "but he didn't". This is especially true when the sentence starts "You would think" rather than "I think" or "I thought".

CJ

CJ, I have a question that has been bothering me for a while.

1) I thought he would let you know about it.
2) I thought he would’ve let you know about it.

My question is that for sentence 2, which one happened first? My thinking as 'thought' or Him letting you know? Is sentence 2 the past version of the present sentence 'I think he let you know already.'? I am pretty sure for sentence 1, My thinking happened before him letting you know, that is why 'would' is future in the past there. I am trying to figure out which happened first so that I can clearly differentiate sentence 1 and sentence 2. Also, do you think it is useless to understand like that?