In the last lesson, we looked at an overview of standard conditional sentences in English. Native speakers, however, use a range of “mixed” conditionals in everyday speech. Real language exists in a ...

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Would you please tell me in which circumstances we can use mixed conditionals? How many combinations can we have? Please give me some examples. With this combination we are contrasting an imagined or ...