Past unreal conditionals are used for situations that did not happen in reality, expressing regret: 'If + Past Perfect', 'wouldn't have + past participle'.
Los condicionales irreales del pasado se usan para situaciones que no ocurrieron en la realidad, expresando arrepentimiento: 'If + Past Perfect', 'wouldn't have + past participle'.
| Task | If Ann _____ (to wear) comfortable shoes, she _____ (not to hurt) her feet when hiking. (But she did in reality). |
|---|---|
| Answer | 2 |
| a | wore/wouldn't hurt |
| b | had worn / wouldn't have hurt |
| c | wore / hurt |
| d | would wear/wouldn't hurt |
| comment | We use past unreal conditionals to refer to actions which never happened in reality. It can be an unreal result, imagined situation or regret about what really happened in the past. Here: in reality Ann hurt her feet because of uncomfortable shoes. Now she regrets about this. |
| topic | exprssing hypothetical meaninig |
| level | 2 |
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