Adverbial clauses of unreal condition

7.5.1. If I were you, I would read this book in the original (this pattern refers to the present, future, or to no particular time).

7.5.2. If I had been in London last January, I would have visited my friend (this pattern refers to the "rejected past").

7.5.3. If you hadn't gone out into the street yesterday, you wouldn't be ill now (this pattern has a mixed time reference: unreal condition refers to the past and unreal result to the present),

7.5.4. If you were more careful, you would not have got into trouble (this pattern has a mixed time reference: unreal condition refers to the present or to no particular time while unreal result refers to the past).

7.5.5. If I were to speak to her, I should/would tell her the truth (this emphatic pattern refers to the future).

7.5.6. If he should come, he will ring you up. Should he come, tell him to ring me up. (Both patterns express problematic condition and refer to the future).

Adverbial clauses of concession

7.6.1. They would not come even if we warned them (this pattern refers to the present or future).

7.6.2. They would not have come even if we had warned them (this pattern refers to the past).

7.6.3. He will not succeed however hard he should try.

(The indicative mood is used in this pattern in less formal style: He will not succeed however hard he will/may try).

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