Could someone explain me why we should use "Would" in this sentence instead of "will"?
"April 1, 2014, the day which I would never forget in my life as Microsoft has awarded me with the Most Valuable Profession Award (MVP) for my Excelling skills".
Learn English – Use of “Would” instead of “Will”
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In the first example, was able to is an alternative.
In the second example, could means that the speaker was in hearing distance of the phone, but implies that the speaker didn’t answer it, at least not immediately. If the speaker had said ‘I was able to hear the phone ringing’, the speech is more likely to continue with something like ‘. . . and so I went over and picked it up.’
In the third example, (1) is not necessarily wrong. It might occur in a sentence such as ‘The doctor said that after treatment he could return to work.’ (2) suggests that not only was he able to return to work, but that he did so.
Could and able to can be interchangeable, but the context will often decide which is chosen.
Be is not always required to mark passive voice. There are other constructions like the one in the example given where the passive is not marked by be (CaGEL p1245):
i Most of the sense verbs
I heard the window broken.
ii Get and have:
She got/had the house painted.
I had my wallet stolen.
iii Like, want, report,fear and order; here the past-participial is an alternant of a passive to-infinitival:
He’d like/wants them (to be)killed humanely;
The captain was reported(to have been)killed;
They are feared (to have been)abducted;
He ordered it (to be)destroyed.
iv Need and want, as an alternant of the concealed passive:
He needs/wants his hair cut
In order to select the correct complement to the verb like, all we need do is consider what complementation patterns are allowed.
Like can take objects, predicative complements, gerund-participial clauses, to-infinitival clauses, expanded declarative content clauses (that-clauses) and past participial clauses:
Billy likes ice-cream. [object]
Billy like his ice-cream cold. [object + PC]
Billy likes his ice-cream to be served in a cone. [object + to-infinitival]
Billy likes eating cold ice-cream. [gerund-participial]
Billy likes me serving him ice-cream. [object + gerund-participial]
Billy likes his ice-cream served in a cone. [object + past-participial]
Billy likes for his ice-cream to be served in a cone. [to-infinitival]
Billy likes that his ice-cream always comes in a cone. [that-clause]
Given these choices for the complementation of like, we can now choose the correct answer. All three options have multiple possible interpretations depending on context:
a) have finished the report
plain infinitival I will have finished the report.
plain present I have finished the report.
b) the report will be finished
declarative main clause The report will be finished.
bare declarative content clause (no that) He said the report will be finished.
c) the report finished
declarative main clause The report finished.
object + past-participial We got the report finished.
We see that the only one which fits the allowed complementation patterns for like is (C).
Best Answer
To begin with, "would" is a past continuous tense. That means that this person who wrote the phrase would never forget, or to rephrase had never forgotten. However, "will" is referring to "in the future", so will is not the correct word to use. The sentence is fine as is.