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This son of inevitability or prediction often occurs in conditional sentences. If people study they will learn. (If people study they learn.) If litmus paper is dipped in acid, it will turn red (it turns red). This meaning is not rendered in Russian by any analogous modal verb. 6. Characteristic behaviour or quality. Oil will float on water. Children will often be full of life when their parents are tired. This car will hold six people comfortably. That’s exactly like Jocelyn — she would lose the key. This meaning is not expressed in Russian. 7. Disapproval of something expected. In this meaning only would is used. It is found mainly in responses. It corresponds to the Russian того и следовало ожидать, на него похоже. «I know she attended the place.» «Oh, yes, she would.»— Конечно, что ешс можно ожидать. «Не refused to interfere.» «Не would.»— На него похоже. «1 don’t like it and I don’t visit the place.* «No, you wouldn't.» (I didn’t expect you would.) You would be late! — Конечно, ты опять опоздал. You would forget. — Конечно же, вы забыли. II. Will/would combined with different forms of the infinitive can express prediction, a certainty about the present or the future, something that is proved or expected. 119
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