Cover of the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

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

Decide whether the 'd contractions in the sentences are short forms of would or had. Then decide whether the examples of would express past habit, future in the past, or an unreal situation.

Answer

  1. would (future in the past)
  2. had
  3. would (past habit)
  4. had
  5. would, had (unreal situation)
  6. would (past habit)
  7. would (unreal situation)
  8. would (future in the past)