what if

use what if when talking about hypothetical situations these are situations that have not happened in the past or are not happening now or might not happen in the future you can use what-if for future or present situations this is for the future what if your alarm clock doesn't go off tomorrow morning what will you do this is for the future what if you don't get paid next week what will you do what if you lose your job what will you do or you could ask what would you do two changes to the present situation this becomes lost what if you lost your job what would you do if this is past then will becomes would what if your battery died what would you do this is in the past and then this verb matches the past tense verb what if you won a million dollars what would you do what would you do with the money if you want a million dollars what if you lost the keys to your house what would you do what if you got fired from your job or what if you lost your job what would you do [Music] what if you didn't have enough to eat this is negative and it's in the past tense but the situation is for the present what would you do what if you made a mistake what would you do when speaking hypothetically about the past you consider how situations in the past could have been different but you can't change the past no matter what has happened this is for a past situation what if you had made a mistake this isn't a past perfect for a past situation and then a question to follow up might be what would you have done what would you have done use would and then have and then the past participle hypothetical situations are considered for a variety of reasons but here's a question that some people ask themselves what if you had never been born or what if I had never been born or it could change the subject to he or she depending on who the person is what if you had never gone to school here's the past perfect for the verb go and it's negative how would your life be different what if you had never gone to school how would your life be different now or we could take this out and say what if you had gone to school in this case the question is asked if you didn't go to school in the past what if you had gone to school how would your life be different now what if you had learned English at an early age how would your life be different now or what if you had never learn English and we'll just illuminate this what if you had never learned English how would your life be different now you

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Published: Wed Dec 04 2019