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After the word imagine in which tense should I put the verb?
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Nizarsouth
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After the word imagine in which tense should I put the verb?
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Dear colleagues, I �d like to ask you about the tense in which i should put the verb after the word imagine. Example: which question is right: imagine you are a very rich man what will you do? imagine you were a very rich man what would ou do? |
7 Mar 2011
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hallouma
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hi,
The second is correct because we use the same tenses as conditional type two to express an unreal present situation or a supposition.
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7 Mar 2011
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magneto
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"Imagine you were a very rich man, what would you do?" is correct.
Apparently, the person you �re addressing this question to is not very rich, so you need to use the Unreal Past.
Think of the sentence as a 2nd Conditional sentence (imaginary situation in the present or future), if it makes it clearer: "If you were a very rich man, what would you do?" Imagine pretty much substitutes If in this question.
Hope I �ve helped!
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7 Mar 2011
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