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TEFL exercises - Upper intermediate materials - Hypothesizing with I Wish and If Only
grammar
Use I wish or if only to rephrase the sentences. Some sentences can use both.
Example You should have studied harder.
I wish/if only I’d studied harder
1 It’s a shame we didn’t manage to say goodbye before they left.
2 I don’t have enough money to buy the present.
3 You should have checked the fuel gauge before leaving.
4 If I had enough money I’d buy a house by the seaside.
5 We need a map.
6 I’d like my manager to be a bit more flexible.
7 They missed their train and were late for the meeting.
8 He would like to be back together with his ex-girlfriend again.
1 " we’d managed to say goodbye before they left."
2 I had enough money to buy the present.
3 you’d checked the fuel gauge before leaving, we wouldn’t be stuck here now.
4 I had enough money to buy a house by the seaside.
5 we had a map.
6 my manager was a bit more flexible.
7 they hadn’t missed their train, they wouldn’t have been late for the meeting.
8 he was back together with his girlfriend again.