Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 11

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6 - Clear the air for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Complete the sentences from the conversations with one word in each space. Then explain the function of each of the gapped sentences.

Answer

  1. ’d (would) → a habit (explaining how you want someone to behave differently)
  2. had → a regret about the past (I wish you had taken it to your room ...) (explaining how you’d like the past to be different)
  3. was → (impossible situation now) (referring to things in the present that we want to be different)
  4. ’d → (criticism / regret about past) (explaining how you’d like the past to be different)
  5. would → (hypothetical result about something before now – I would have said it if you came out of your office more often) (replying to a wish / if only comment)