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Unreal or hypothetical conditionals |
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Answer» Definition of The Unreal CONDITIONALS: These conditionals refer to hypothetical conditions which have no probability to happen in the past, present or future but express what could/ might have happened. the open hypothetical conditional statement: This REFERS to a POSSIBLE future situation which depends on on another possible future situation. The verb of the main clause uses the present conditional tense (would + infinitive, or could +infinitive); Difference between unreal and hypothetical conditionals In traditional grammar, a sentence with a conditional clause with a true situation is a real conditional, and an untrue situation is an unreal condition, a hypothetical condition or an IMAGINARY present, past or future. |
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