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Jan 4, 2021 at 13:57	comment	added	cactustictacs		If you're just being polite, you use would + infinitive to add a little "distance" - I would like, would this be better? etc. When it comes to conditionals, we use the past tense to give things more of an "unreal" flavour, to imply something is unlikely (or didn't happen, but we're imagining it did). If I win* the lottery* and if I won* the lottery* both mean the same thing really, but if I win sounds much more like it could happen, that the person is going to buy a ticket, whereas if I won sounds more like a daydream. There's a lot to learn but it's all just speaking style
Jan 4, 2021 at 11:30	comment	added	Student		Thanks for your response. I have always struggled with using modal verbs with the correct tenses in conditional sentences. When we are using would/could in a conditional or polite manner, we pair these modal verbs with "was/were" which confuses me as the sentences are referring to something that has not yet happened. But sometimes it's also correct to use present tense verbs with these modal verbs.
Jan 3, 2021 at 0:02	history	answered	cactustictacs	CC BY-SA 4.0