/A learner/
I know nobody like my long posts.;-)
Would I, Could I, May I, Must I, Have I, Can I, Should I, Will I, Shall I?:roll:
I ought to say this bellow.
(You just don't take it too seriously.:mrgreen
Will is modal.
Would is modal.
Modals never change their forms but have a lot of functions.
I don't like when people say "would" is the first auxiliary in "I would have liked to go to Libya.".
And the second auxiliary is "have" here.
This combination consists of modal+auxiliary+main (lexical) verb, for me, a learner.
Even though "would have liked" describes a situation that wasn't fulfilled because it couldn't have been fulfilled, I can't easy say "would" is past subjunctive here. Would is modal here as well but do a job in the sense of the past subjunctive together with the auxiliary and the past participle of the lexical verb.
Modals and their relationships to the rest of English are to complicated to be explained easily.
In addition
Will you tell me..?
Would you tell me..?
I see no any past in these two sentences?
"Would" isn't the past tense of "will".
tricked ~ past simple____to trick ~ infinitive____ will trick ~ will form to express future
It is interesting that I have never heard that will is the future tense of would!
Neither "will" is the future tense of "would" nor "would" is the past tense of 'will".
Must be "something" between would and will if we want to talk about tenses.
would________ "something"_____________will
Then "would" will be the past tense of that "something" and "will" be the future tense of that "something".
When someone define that "something", gimme a shout!
Would isn't verb at all for me. As I already said it belongs to special kind of words called modals.
I would ocean.
Is "I"subject, "would" predicate and "ocean" object?
Does "I would ocean." make any sense?
Maybe "I ought to ocean." make sense to someone but
not to me.