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Если вы согласитесь мне помочь, мы можем кончить к 6 часам.
If you will wait for me I’ll be very grateful.
When used in the negative it denotes a refusal to do something.
I won’t accept your offer (I refuse to ...).
They wouldn’t listen to me (they refused to listen to me).
He wouldn’t answer my question (he refused to answer ...).
2. A polite request or an offer. This meaning occurs only in questions.
Will you pass the salt, please?
Will you haw some tea?
In comparison with will the form would renders a greater degree of politeness.
Would you please pass the salt?
Would you please lend me your pencil?
It is still more polite to use the combinations: Would you mind (+ -ing form), Would you be so kind as to...
Would you be so kind as to lend me your book?
3. A command (in military contexts it is a strict command).
Officers will report for duty at 06.00.
You will do exactly as I say.
You will go in there and tell him that the game is up.
An impatient command can begin with will you.
Will you be quiet! - Замолчишь, ли ты наконец?
Will you in the tag after a negative command can tone down the command (and is pronounced with the
falling tone).
Don’t be late, will you?
But after a positive command will you has a rising intonation and expresses impatience.
Sit down, will you?
Shut the door, will you?
Shut the door, won’t you?
Would is never used in this meaning.
4. Insistence, resistence. Will and would are stressed when used in this sense.
He will try to mend it himself (he insists on mending it himself).
With reference to inanimate objects will and would show that a thing fails to perform its function. It occurs
in negative statements and corresponds to the Russian никак не.
The door will not open.
The orange won’t peel.
- Дверь никак не открывается.
- Апельсин никак не очистить.