Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Khaled. Hi Khaled.

Khaled says, you explained the difference between why did you do that and why would you do that?

So is why would you do that the same as why will you do that?

Thank you. Good question. Yeah. Why would you do that versus why will you do that? So first,

the short answer to your question is no. We don't say why will you do that. Actually, why will

you do that is generally not a sentence pattern we use.

So to go back a little bit, you said, I initially at first talked about the differences in

another video about why did you do that and why would you do that.

So why did you do that is a question about a past action, right? Something that happened in the

past and we want to know the reason for it, right? Why did you do that? And then why would you do that

refers to an unreal action or refers to something that we don't understand. So when we use this to talk

about past actions, we're like, I can't understand why.

Why is the reason for this?

And we might use why would you do that?

Why would you do that to talk about something that we don't understand?

So I think I said something similar to that in a previous video.

So let's expand on that.

Let's continue this with kind of a future tense question then, right? So you've

suggested, why will you do that? But we would not say, why will you do that? Instead, we would say

something like, why are you going to do that? And the reason for this goes back to the difference

between will and going to in terms of grammar points.

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