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Second conditional | Unreal conditionals

 

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