a polite request, Would you mind helping me with this?, refusal / failure, The car wouldn’t start., a desired change in behavior, I wish you would stop interrupting me., a logical assumption about the present, The guy on the phone had a Southern accent. - That would be Tom., a polite expression of a wish or desire, I’d like to leave now., polite preference, I’d prefer to go by train., asking about a possible reason while showing that the action seems strange or hard to understand, Why would anyone do such a thing?, a logical assumption about the past, That would have been John who called earlier.

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