#english_language 

## Will
- To indicate that we think a present or future situation is **CERTAIN**:
	> We won't see them again before Christmas
- to talk about characteristic behaviour or habits in the present, although usually we mean to convey negative emotion
	> Every day Dan will come home from work and turn on the TV
## Would
- To talk about *general* or *repeated* [[Future Continuous#^51bf46|willingness]] in the past we can sometimes use would, but we can't use it in this way to talk about a *particular* occasion:
	> Whenever I had to go town, Ron would give me a lift

- To criticise people's characteristic behaviour or habits in the past with the stress on "would" to 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.
- we use **would not** to talk about *either* unwillingness in general or about a particular occasion:
	> We thought that people wouldn't/would buy the book (=general)
	> She wouldn't say what was wrong when I asked (=particular occasion)