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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.
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