Cover of the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7 - Real and unreal tense usage for the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press

Question

Complete the second lines so that they correspond to the real or hypothetical situations in the first ones. Sometimes more than one tense is possible.

Answer

  1. I wish I was enjoying this book on how to be happy.
  2. I worried too much when I was young.
  3. I wish you weren't so stubborn and (you) would listen to my advice (sometimes).
  4. Luckily this room hasn't been painted / wasn't painted yellow as was suggested.
  5. He will never / won't ever admit he's wrong sometimes.
  6. Unfortunately, we weren't working when the boss popped in.
  7. He talks as if he was / were an expert and had got a degree in linguistics.
  8. Suppose she'd been able to speak English and hadn't misunderstood me.
  9. I'd rather Sally hadn't come.
  10. I wish he'd had to go to prison and pay for his crimes / he'd gone to prison and paid for his crimes.