
Second conditional | Unreal conditionals
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Published by: sammi2015 (Karma: 2153.62) on 25 July 2016 | Views: 1528 |
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The second conditional describes an imaginary, impossible or unlikely situation in the present or future.
The situation is unreal or hypothetical.
The condition takes the past simple tense to reflect a distance from reality but the time is NOT in the past.
When we use the verb "to be" as a main verb, the tense is the past simple, subjunctive mood and not the usual indicative mood...
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Tags: tense, simple, situation, conditional, reality, Second |