nation:

If it _should_ occur, we _would_ not come.
It was promised that it _should_ not occur again.
He decided that it _should_ be done.

_Should_ is sometimes used in the sense of _ought_, to imply duty;
as, _He should have gone to her aid_.

_Would_ is often used to indicate habitual action; as, _This would
often occur when he was preaching_.

EXERCISE 48

_Justify the correct use of SHOULD and WOULD in the following
sentences:_

1. I feared that they would not come.
2. He should know his duty better than that.
3. I should be displeased if he would act that way.
4. We should be ruined if we did that.
5. You should have seen his face.
6. We would often take that road.
7. He said that he would come at once.
8. If that should happen, we should not come.
9. If you were I, what should you do?
10. I should see the president of the class.
11. We should have been at the meeting.
12. He said that we should have been at the meeting.
13. He promised that he would be at the meeting.
14. If I should say so, he would dislike me.
15. Should he come, I would go with him.
16. They would usually stop at the new hotel.
17. What would they do in the city?
18. She asked if she should write the letter.
19. She said they would write the letter.
20. She agreed that it would be right.
21. She assured us that she would attend to it.

EXERCISE 49

_Fill in the blanks with SHOULD or WOULD in the following sentences:_

1. I fear I ---- be drowned if I ---- go swimming.
2. I ---- be much pleased to meet him.
3. It was feared that they ---- not accept.
4. If it ---- storm, we ---- not start.
5. She ---- often come to class with no books.
6. I believed that he ---- come late.
7. He ---- never have been invited.
8. If that had become known, we ---- surely have been ruined.
9. To think that he ---- do such a thing!
10. I ---- like to see the game.
11. You ---- not enjoy it.
12. ---- you like to see the game?
13. ---- I bring my opera glasses?
14. Mary ---- never have known it.
15. He ---- have easily deceived her.
16. They were anxious that we ---- not miss the train.
17. If we ---- come late, ---- it make any difference?
18. If they had proposed it, we ---- have voted it down.
19. On what date ---- that come?
20. I suppose I ---- have done it; but, it ---- have inconvenienced me.
21. Had Lee known that, he ---- never have surrendered.
22. I ---- never have