为什么用WOULD 而不是WILL

Question

Without immediate actions, many kinds of wild animals would die from hunger 为什么用WOULD 而不是WILL

Answer 1

如果没有，这句是虚拟语气，所以用would，will表示真实发生追问

There happened to be an old man on the corner, so I asked him the way.

为什么不用asked him for the way?

追答

虚拟语气的形式尽在be动词have/had、would，could的形式上做变化，不在实义动词变化~