Would

MFarooqWhy is WOULD used in the dialogue below?

Why WOULD you pull his tie? (Why did you call him?) ~ Why did you pull his tie given that there seems to be no reason for you to have done that? What reason did you have to do that? I am puzzled about why you did that.

CJ

Sir,
I would like to confirm. So, every past interrogative sentence which starts with why can be written by using the following structure.

Why+would+pronoun+first form of the verb+object?

Please, clarify me.

Thank you

MFarooqevery past interrogative sentence which starts with why can be written by using the following structure.

English has so many exceptions that it is impossible to answer "yes" or "no" to any question that has "every" or "all" or "always" or "never" in it. I prefer to say that a great many questions can be writte

Hi,

Why are "WOULD NOT, and WOULD used in the following dialogues? Are these dialogues in past, present or future?

Jen: He has always been an angle. What made Elis do that?
Jerry: That is what we are trying to find out.
Aisha: Do you keep the gun on the premises?
Jerry: Kids you watch, could any of them have brought one in here?
Jen: Not at all
Jerry: you wo

MFarooqWhy are "WOULD NOT, and WOULD used in the following dialogues?

To show uncertainty.

MFarooqAre these dialogues in past, present or future?

I don't see anything in the future tense, do you? I see present tenses and a past tense.

CJ

I am sorry. I meant to ask about the dialogue in which WOULD NOT and WOULD used (said by Jerry) Is that dialogue in the present, past or future?

Thank you

MFarooqI am sorry. I meant to ask about the dialogue in which WOULD NOT and WOULD used (said by Jerry) Is that line of dialogue in the present, past or future? Thank you

A dialogue is an entire conversation. You were asking about "a line of dialogue".

"would" makes it a modal tense, and the reference is to present

Hi Sir,

Why is WOULD used in the below dialogue?

Benson: When he did not come then I went looking. He did have his keys. He forgets them. I went to the market. It was closed. There was yellow crime scene tape over it. I have been running everywhere and trying to find my son in hospitals, police station. Now I am here so please let me know what did Mark did?

Fin: Maggie

MFarooqWhy is WOULD used in the below dialogue?

MFarooq,

You are asking one question after another about "would", and I see no evidence that our answers are helping. After many weeks of asking these questions, you still seem confused. Maybe it's time for you to try to answer these questions yourself.

You tell us what you think. Why is "wou

I am sorry to bother you. Yes, you are right that I am still confused and that is why I have been asking questions about COULD and WOULD for a long time,

but here what do I understand. It is habitual action in the past.

Thank you