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