Unreal possibility, present and future

Second conditional: if+ past tense…would + bare infinitive

This is used to talk about unreal possibilities (things that are unlikely, impossible or hypothetical) in the present and in the future.

If I won the lottery, I would move to the seaside.

I’d get a new car if I had enough money.

If you weren’t having a lesson now, what would you be doing?

The use of the past here is called the unreal past.

Instead of would we can also use other modals:

If I won the lottery, I could leave my job.

I might feel happier if I went to another school.

Especially in formal English we can say: If I were …

If I were Prime Minister, I would introduce new laws against pollution.

The third conditional: if + past perfect …would have + past participle

We can’t change the past. When we want to imagine the past being different, we can talk about it using the third conditional.

If I had known about the party, I would have gone. (But I didn’t know and didn’t go)

We wouldn’t have been on time if we hadn’t run. (We ran. We were on time)

Numerals

Примечание:в составе числительных перед десятками (а если их нет, то перед единицами) ставится союз and.

Числительные hundred, thousand, million не употребляются во множественном числе. Во множественном числе могут употребляться только соответствующие существительные. Например: hundreds of thousands of people.

Most fractions are expressed using ordinal numbers.

1/3 - a third

1/5 - a fifth

1/6 - a sixth

½ - a half

¼ - a quarter

¾ - three quarters

3 ½ - three and a half

2 ¾ - two and three quarters

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