for teachers of English and their students
How to express a realistic exception to a situation in the present?
Use … would + to + [infinitive] … unless … [past simple]/were to describe a realistic exception to a situation in the present.
unless means except if.
For example, a phrase like this:
I wouldn’t meet him unless I had to.
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