Habits (характерное поведение, типичные события)
will – would – used to
PRESENT
will (указывает здесь НЕ на будущее время, А на типичность)
Every day, Dan will come home from work and turn on the TV (каждый день приходит… и включает…)
A baby will recognize its mother’s voice soon after it is born (любой ребёнок (обычно) узнаёт…)
She will leave all the lights on in the house when she goes out (она (всегда), когда уходит, оставляет везде свет включенным)
PAST
would ИЛИ used to (более разговорный вариант) – указывают, что что-то происходило обычно, часто, как правило…
Every lesson was the same: he’d sit down and get his books out, then he’d start giving us instructions. He wouldn’t greet us or show any interest in us.
I miss Dad, even though he would always tell me how to run my life!
At school, she would always sit quietly and pay attention.
During the war, people would eat / used to eat all kinds of things that we don’t eat now.
Early passenger planes wouldn’t hold / didn’t use to hold more than 30 passengers.
Whenever we went to my Uncle Frank’s house, we would / used to play in the garden.
used to
– для упоминания состояния, которое к теперешнему времени изменилось:
The factory used to be in the city center (NOT would be in the city… Раньше в центре города была фабрика)
I used to smoke heavily when I was at university (NOT I would smoke… Когда я учился… много курил)
Didn’t you use to have red hair?
– обычно, вопросы и отрицательные предложения – посредством did:
Did your children use to sleep well when they were babies?
I didn’t use to like visiting the dentist when I was young.
+
He used to play cricket for Australia, didn’t he? (ЛУЧШЕ, ЧЕМ …, usedn’t he?)
Мы не употребляем would / used to
– когда говорим не о типичном, а о конкретном событии
Whenever I had to go to town, Ron would give me a lift (Всякий раз, когда я ехал в город, Рон подвозил меня)
НО
I was late, so Ron gave me a lift to town. (NOT … Ron would / used to give me… Я опаздывал (конкретный случай), поэтому Рон подвёз меня…)
Each time I gave him a problem, he would solve it for me.
НО
Last night I gave him a problem, and he solved it for me (NOT … he would solve it…)
– когда есть указание на «сколько раз ИЛИ как долго»
We visited Switzerland four times during the 1990s. (NOT We would / used to visit…)