What would and used to be. Would and use, did and used to be.
I would eat many things once I was a child.
What would you do if you was a child and ate well?
Difference of meaning between these paragraphs?
How is the second sentence the “I’m not eating well” after the second is the “I’m not good at gastronomy”?
I had a good time when I was a little girl. I didn’t like to eat or drink that much. I took medications but I did try and change that. Well, there is something I can do when I’m healthy.
I used to eat well as a child. I was wrong. I didn’t know food was bad or bad. I just wanted to know what others were saying.
Both sentences of this novel actually mean equal things.
What is the part of conditional construction? What is the future
- in the past? So if someone said, “I will be there”, then in a reported speech this becomes: She said that she would be there.
- A tentative expression of belief ( I will think so)-I’ll just write it.
- An expression of, and expression of, desire. What do you call “would that it were”? I wish it was so. id is in “pure” english.I wish that it was so I would.
- What are habitual, expected past actions?
- Descriptions of habitual non-past actions.
The following is a discussion about a “part of the English grammar” by Thomson Martinet: Bill objected, Bill
“never said anything about it” (Oxford University Press 1990).
He would! Neither He, nor He, would object! He always objects. In
this idiom the word “would” is stressed. This might even be worse.
Thomson and Martinet say that, instead of being “would” has a wide application to past habitual actions and is generally equivalent to “used” / “used to”. On the distinction between ” would” and “used to”, they contend that when “used to” is used to describe a “discontinued habit” (as in “he used to drink beer but now he drinks wine”), “would” cannot replace “used
to.”
Both are considered to be from a “you’re a child, you’re eating well” sentiment but also different from the first sound, like something from a younger, unnatural person – “I ate well when you were a child, but I don’t anymore” this is because being used to refers to something that happened before. Or though there is more to it.
I ate well as
a child…If I lived with my parents, how
did I love eating more since then?
