Mixed conditionals

Wish/If only + _______ is used for situations that could change in the future, and for criticising current situations.

When the subject of both verbs is the same we use _____ instead of would.

Wish/If only + ______ is used for regrets about the past.

If only I .......... out tonight. The football Cup

Final is on TV.

• didn't have to go

• wasn't going

• would go

• had gone

I do wish you _____ more carefully. I've said

the same thing three times already

• would listen

• had listen

• didn't listen

• listened

I bet your friend wishes he _____ that girl his

phone number. She just won't leave him alone!

• hadn't given

• didn't give

• would give

• could give

If only someone _____ me not to buy that

mobile phone. It's been nothing but trouble

since the day I bought it!

• didn't tell

• had told

• would tell

• could tell

I wish the sun _____ ! Then we could go to the

park and play tennis.

• would come out

• shine

• was shining

• had shone

If only 3D TVs ____ so expensive. There's no

way I can afford one.

• were

• weren't

• hadn't been

Like most of the other students, I wish we

____ exams at the end of this course.

• didn't have

• hadn't had

• would have