UJ English Journalism (Week Fifteen)
Warm-Up:
Questionnaire: Managing Time (TB 5B)
UNREAL PAST
What is Unreal Past?
Unreal Past is the use of past tenses to talk about hypothetical situations. We use Past Simple, and sometimes Past Continuous, to talk about unlikely or unreal situations in the present and future, and Past Perfect for unlikely or unreal situations in the past.
We use Unreal Past in the following:
- Unreal or hypothetical conditionals - second, third and mixed
- The constructions I wish ... and If only ...
- Expressing a preference with I'd rather, I'd sooner, I'd prefer, I'd just as soon
- Hypothesising with What if, supposing, imagine
- After as if and as though when we think the situation is unlikely
- It's time
- Being tentative - If ... were to
- Idiom - If it wasn't for / weren't for / hadn't been for
Advanced Vocabulary: Money
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