When you use the PAST TENSE to talk about THE FUTURE | Unreal past [Weird English] @LetThemTalkTV
When you use the PAST TENSE to talk about THE FUTURE | Unreal past [Weird English]  @LetThemTalkTV
Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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- We talk about the unreal past with WISH, IF ONLY, SUPPOSE, WHAT IF, CONDITIONALS, HAD BETTER and soup...mostly mulligatawny soup. We use the past tense to talk about the present and future. Yes, English is sometimes weird.

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