Practical Grammar and Composition Part 21

67. The book says that ---- be wrong.

68. Does she say that she ---- come?

69. I told you that I ---- not come.

70. I tell you that she ---- not come.

71. He says that he ---- go as a matter of duty.

72. John says that ---- not happen anyway.

73. Does he say that he ---- surely come?

74. Does John write what he ---- promise to do in the matter?

75. ---- you be sure to be there?

EXERCISE 47

_Write five sentences in which SHALL is used in an independent clause, and five in which SHALL is used in a dependent clause._

_Write five sentences in which WILL is used in an independent clause, and five in which WILL is used in a dependent clause._

_Write five interrogative sentences in which SHALL is used and five in which WILL is used._

68. SHOULD AND WOULD. _Should_ and _would_ are the past tenses of _shall_ and _will_, and have corresponding uses. _Should_ is used with _I_ and _we_, and _would_ with other subjects, to express mere futurity or probability. _Would_ is used with _I_ and _we_, and _should_ with other subjects, to express conditional promise or determination on the part of the speaker. Examples:

Futurity:

I _should_ be sorry to lose this book.

If we _should_ be afraid of the storm, we _should_ be foolish.

It was expected that they _would_ be here.

Volition or determination:

If it _should_ occur, we _would_ not come.

It was promised that it _should_ not occur again.

He decided that it _should_ be done.

_Should_ is sometimes used in the sense of _ought_, to imply duty; as, _He should have gone to her aid_.

_Would_ is often used to indicate habitual action; as, _This would often occur when he was preaching_.

EXERCISE 48

_Justify the correct use of SHOULD and WOULD in the following sentences:_

1. I feared that they would not come.

2. He should know his duty better than that.

3. I should be displeased if he would act that way.

4. We should be ruined if we did that.

5. You should have seen his face.

6. We would often take that road.

7. He said that he would come at once.

8. If that should happen, we should not come.

9. If you were I, what should you do?

10. I should see the president of the cla.s.s.

11. We should have been at the meeting.

12. He said that we should have been at the meeting.

13. He promised that he would be at the meeting.

14. If I should say so, he would dislike me.

15. Should he come, I would go with him.

16. They would usually stop at the new hotel.

17. What would they do in the city?

18. She asked if she should write the letter.

19. She said they would write the letter.

20. She agreed that it would be right.

21. She a.s.sured us that she would attend to it.

EXERCISE 49

_Fill in the blanks with SHOULD or WOULD in the following sentences:_

1. I fear I ---- be drowned if I ---- go swimming.

2. I ---- be much pleased to meet him.

3. It was feared that they ---- not accept.

4. If it ---- storm, we ---- not start.

5. She ---- often come to cla.s.s with no books.

6. I believed that he ---- come late.

7. He ---- never have been invited.

8. If that had become known, we ---- surely have been ruined.

9. To think that he ---- do such a thing!

10. I ---- like to see the game.

11. You ---- not enjoy it.

12. ---- you like to see the game?

13. ---- I bring my opera gla.s.ses?

14. Mary ---- never have known it.

15. He ---- have easily deceived her.

16. They were anxious that we ---- not miss the train.

17. If we ---- come late, ---- it make any difference?

18. If they had proposed it, we ---- have voted it down.

19. On what date ---- that come?

20. I suppose I ---- have done it; but, it ---- have inconvenienced me.

21. Had Lee known that, he ---- never have surrendered.

22. I ---- never have believed she ---- do such a thing.

23. We ---- never have come.

24. ---- you think him capable of such a trick?

25. I knew I ---- not be here on time.

26. ---- they dare to attempt opposition?

27. How ---- you go about it?

28. Lincoln, under those circ.u.mstances, ---- probable not have been elected.

29. It ---- have changed our whole history.

30. He said that it ---- have changed our whole history.

31. He said he ---- come.

32. She thinks they ---- not do it.

33. We believe that we ---- like to go at once.

34. They say it ---- be done now.