Assignment 10B

Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:

The Inuit would put a small piece of feather over the hole and stand with bone harpoon ready and when the seal came into the hole the air pushing ahead of its body would ruffle the feather and the hunter would lunge with the harpoon and bury the barbed head in the back of the seal.

Why do three different verbs form in this passage occur with “would”? What does the use of “would” convey here?

Original:

The word “would” in this passage means that telling the plan and the trap which is telling a different action in the period so there is three different verb forms of past and present in the idea. The word “would” convey as a plan of a step in the hunting seal of the Inuit.

Revision:

The word “would” in this passage is the action verb because it describing what the Inuit was doing and when the seal came up for air. The word “would” transmit into an action that describes the hunting and how the Inuit attacks their prey.