Answer — Exercise 11
6 - Clear the air·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
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
- ’d (would) → a habit (explaining how you want someone to behave differently)
- 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)
- was → (impossible situation now) (referring to things in the present that we want to be different)
- ’d → (criticism / regret about past) (explaining how you’d like the past to be different)
- 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)