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    This document summarizes different grammar structures: 1) Wish clauses are used to express wanting a past or present situation to be different, or expressing regret over the past. 2) Conditionals come in three types depending on the tense used to refer to the if-clause and main clause. 3) Adverbs like "hardly", "scarcely", and "barely" are used with "had" and the past participle to emphasize something was difficult or unlikely when something else happened. 4) "No sooner" is used with "had" and the past participle to emphasize two events happened at almost the same time.

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    This document summarizes different grammar structures: 1) Wish clauses are used to express wanting a past or present situation to be different, or expressing regret over the past. 2) Conditionals come in three types depending on the tense used to refer to the if-clause and main clause. 3) Adverbs like "hardly", "scarcely", and "barely" are used with "had" and the past participle to emphasize something was difficult or unlikely when something else happened. 4) "No sooner" is used with "had" and the past participle to emphasize two events happened at almost the same time.

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    Wish Clauses: If Conditionals

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    This document summarizes different grammar structures: 1) Wish clauses are used to express wanting a past or present situation to be different, or expressing regret over the past. 2) Conditionals come in three types depending on the tense used to refer to the if-clause and main clause. 3) Adverbs like "hardly", "scarcely", and "barely" are used with "had" and the past participle to emphasize something was difficult or unlikely when something else happened. 4) "No sooner" is used with "had" and the past participle to emphasize two events happened at almost the same time.

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    Grammar

    Wish Clauses
    1).We use wish +S+ past simple to express that we want a situation in the present (or future) to

    be different.
    I wish I spoke Italian.
    I don't speak Italian.
    I wish it was the weekend tomorrow. (future)
    It's only Thursday tomorrow.
    2).We use wish +S+ past perfect to express a regret, or that we want a situation in the past to be
    different.
    I wish I hadn't eaten so much.
    I ate a lot.
    3).We use wish +S+ would + bare infinitive to express impatience, annoyance or dissatisfaction
    with a present action.
    I wish you would stop smoking.
    You are smoking at the moment and it is annoying me.

    If Conditionals
    Type 1:Future/present +If+Present
    I'll stay at home IF it rains tomorrow.

    Type 2:Present conditional +If+Past tense /Subjonctive


    I would travel around the world and buy a castle in Norway IF I won the lottery.

    Type 3: Past Conditional+If+Past perfect/Subjonctive


    My teacher wouldn't have shouted at me IF I would done my homework.

    Hardly
    Scarcely
    Barely

    + Had + S + Past participle+ when

    No sooner + had + S + Past participle + than

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