Easy Word | Luyện ngữ pháp


Luyện ngữ pháp - Destination C1 and C2 ((Unit 13: Grammar - Unreal time))


• Sometimes we use the past simple and continuous to refer to the present, the future or a general situation.
• Sometimes we use the past perfect simple and continuous to refer to a hypothetical past that didn't actually happen.

Watch out!
• For all of the situations below with the past simple and past continuous, with the verb to be after I and he/she/it, there is a choice of was or were.
✓ I wish I was rich.
✓ I wish I were rich.
• Both was and were are common in informal English but were is sometimes more appropriate in formal, written English and is always used in the phrase If I were you ...

Conditionals
For hypothetical and unlikely current, future or general conditions (see Unit 11 for more information) I wouldn't accept a job unless I was absolutely sure what the salary was.
If you were travelling to Russia, would you get roubles before you left or when you arrived?
For hypothetical past conditions (see Unit 11 for more information) If I had known, I would have taken some dollars with me.
If I had been running the bank, I would have given you an overdraft!

Form - imagine / what if / suppose / supposing


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