Hello! This is my first time here. I'd like to ask something, if it's possible to "tchrist". It's about one post about conditionals (I haven't got permissions to comment the answer)
Apart from the usual four types, 0, 1, 2, 3, I learnt that there was a fifth type, the so-called "mixed conditionals", where you have one part that talks about non-past and the other half about past.
As in "If tickets weren't so expensive, I would've gone to see this film earlier!"
Is that an unreal non-past conditional?
(following Christian Jones and Daniel Waller classification)
Tickets are expensive at the present time -> non-past Tickets are not cheap, they are expensive -> unreal I didn't see this film earlier -> real
This is a combination of tenses that I couldn't find in their extensive list, but I guess it's difficult to cover all the possibilities, and it doesn't mean it cannot be said.
Thank you @CowperKettle - now I know how to make a reference
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