Write down five things action that you wish you would have done differently in the past if the situation had been different express them using the past unreal conditional and how could it affect you in the present.

1. If I hadn't moved to Europe, I would have enjoyed more time with my grandparents in my native country.

2. I wouldn't have failed the test if I had studied enough.

3. If I had had more experience, I wouldn't have made that many mistakes in my previous job.

4. I would have been there for my cousin if she hadn't been so rude to me over the years.

5. If I hadn't been so much in my head during the competition, I would have made it to “Top Five.”

The Past Unreal Conditional expresses imaginary situations in the past, in other words, things we would have done if something different had happened or if certain circumstances had been different. It is made of two clauses: the “if” clause + the outcome clause. In the “if” clause, it uses the past perfect tense (that is, “Had” followed by a past participle verb), and in the outcome clause, it uses “would have” + the past participle of a verb. Here are five example sentences using the past unreal conditions:

he believed if we do not fight back the britins would be in every household