Answer — Exercise 13
4 - Cast your vote·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
With your partner, decide which option is not possible. Then discuss the difference in meaning between the two possible options.
Answer
- If the parliamentary vote goes against the government next week, it could trigger / it’ll trigger /
it triggeredan election. → could is less certain than will - The government should’ve done more for the middle classes if they want / wanted /
would’ve wantedto win the election. → want suggests a current situation (what they put in the manifesto for the next election) as opposed to a finished situation - If they complain, tell / I wouldn’t tell /
I toldthe boss. → tell is more certain – imperative, the other is advice - If I’d heard something,
I’d told/ I would tell / I would’ve told you. → would tell you now and would’ve told you before now - If it hadn’t been for him, I wouldn’t be working /
wouldn’t have been working/ would never have got a job here.