will
or
would
to criticise people's characteristic behaviour or habits:
• She
will
leave all the lights on in the house when she goes out.
• I was happy when Sam left. He
would
talk about people behind their backs.
When we use stressed
would
in this way, we can also use it to talk about a
particular
occasion in
the past. We suggest that what happened was predictable because it was typical of a person's
behaviour:
• 'Jackie says she can't help because she's got a lot of work on.' 'Well she
would
say that - she
always uses that excuse.'
If we want to talk about things that happened repeatedly in the past, but don't happen now, we
can use
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