LEVEL 4 GRAMMAR, APRIL 12TH, 2018

WE looked at the first and second conditionals in this class....



The second conditional is used to talk about unreal, unlikely or imaginary situations...

If I were rich, I would buy a big house.

We need....

If + past tense, would + verb.

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