Simple Present
Simple Past
Will
Would
Modals
Perfect Modals
Simple Past
Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Would rather
Real: I rather go to the movies
Unreal: I’d rather you went to the movies with me.
Would just as soon
Chapo would just as soon prefer to die than go to jail
in the States.
I wish
I​ w
​ ish I had money to go to Europe.
I wish she liked me. (Emma Watson)
I wish I had visited my grandma more often (It’s about the
past)
I wish she ​would ​like me. (My co-worker)
If only
If only I hadn’t spent all my paycheck in alcohol…
If only my boss ​would ​give me a rise.
What If / ​Suppose/
supposing
Suppose beer made you lose weight, what would you do?
It’s time
It’s time they renovated the school.
It’s ​high time I​ went to the beach.