IF… WOULDGrammar Lab

MEANING

If I lived in a township,

I would have a difficult life.

If I were South African,

I would be pride of it.

STRUCTURE

➤ 1st part

If + past

(if: hypothesis, imagine)

(be: were for every person)

➤ 2nd part

Would + verbal base

(would: modal will)

FROM REALITY TO DREAM…➤ She lives in the countryside. (reality)

➤ If she lived in the city, she would get job opportunities. (dream)

➤ He is not a millionaire. (reality)

➤ If he were a millionaire, he would feed everyone. (dream)

➤ I am not on holiday. (reality)

➤ If I were on holiday, I would relax all day long. (dream)

YOUR TURN➤ I am not a South African, I am not proud of the country.

➤ You don’t live in a township, you have a good life.

➤ She has not enough money to live correctly. (enough: assez)

➤ They don’t have a good job to earn money. (earn: gagner)

➤ I am not Nelson Mandela, I don’t know what to do.

➤ She is not Miriam Makeba, she doesn’t sing well.

➤ I don’t live in a township, I don’t have to fight.

➤ I am not a journalist, so I don’t write about South Africa.

➤ We are not dancers, we don’t know how to dance Pantsula.