Usage of WILL

 

Usage of WILL

1. Used for talking about or predicting the future.

Ø You’ll be in time if you hurry.

Ø How long will you be staying in Paris?

Ø Fred said he’d be leaving soon.

Ø By next year all the money will have been spent.

2. Used for showing that somebody is willing to do something.

Ø I’ll check this letter for you, if you want.

Ø They won’t lend us any more money.

Ø He wouldn’t come—he said he was too busy.

Ø We said we would keep them.

3. Used for asking somebody to do something.

Ø Will you send this letter for me, please?

Ø You’ll water the plants while I’m away, won’t you?

Ø I asked him if he wouldn’t mind calling later.

4. Used for ordering somebody to do something.

Ø You’ll do it this minute!

Ø Will you be quiet!

5. Used for stating what you think is probably true.

Ø That’ll be the doctor now.

Ø You’ll have had dinner already, I suppose.

6. Used for stating what is generally true.

Ø If it’s made of wood it will float.

Ø Engines won’t run without lubricants.

7. Used for stating what is true or possible in a particular case.

Ø This jar will hold a kilo.

Ø The door won’t open!

8. Used for talking about habits.

Ø She’ll listen to music, alone in her room, for hours.

Ø He would spend hours on the telephone.

9.  If you put extra stress on the word will or would in this meaning, it shows that the habit annoys you.

Ø He 'will comb his hair at the table, even though he knows I don’t like it.

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