What's the difference between the two below-mentioned sentences? Thank you for your reply 1.I could not understand why she wanted to...... 2.I could not understand why she would have wanted to....... Is " would have wanted to" past tense of "will have wanted to" ? Or it just put emphasis on the second sentence I know that "would have p.p" also means "at that time I could do but I did not" However, it does not make sense when I read the second sentence