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Lesson: 4.5.3 Year 4
Everyday Grammar: Past unreal Conditionals
Past perfect: (If clause) Present perfect: (Result clause)
Past unreal conditional is often used specially communicate an Imagined desirable result. more often than not, the scenario expressed in a past unreal conditional statement is preferable to realty. ”Wish” is (in present tense) can be added to a statement in the third conditional to express a more ideal result and past perfect verb, again either positive or negative, accompany the subject of these sentences.
the past unreal conditional sentence’s structure with ”wish” is: Subject wishes+ subject +past perfect
verb+ objects.
For example… I wish I would have more time to study, when I was young.
If I had known her name, I would have said hello.
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