🎛️ Grammar B2-16: Second and third conditionals: consolidation

The sixteenth material of the Fleydo B2 grammar series, and the point where the two unreal conditionals stop being separate lessons and become one choice made at speed. The chooser is a single question: is the unreal thing untrue now or always, which takes one step back — if plus past simple, would plus a plain verb — or untrue at a finished moment, which takes two: if plus past perfect, would have plus a past participle. That choice is drilled on minimal pairs in which nothing changes but the time expression, so that every evening and that Friday visibly rewrite four verbs. The second load is the result half: a table and a compare-and-verdict pair set would have, could have and might have against each other in the same sentence about the same night, showing that would have asserts the outcome, could have names an option that was open and went unused, and might have gives the outcome a chance and no more — with the bare reproach You could have told me as the everyday case. The third load is register, where B2 learners actually need this grammar every week: If I were you, Would it be OK if I came at ten, Would you mind if we borrowed, I would be grateful if you could, and the unreal past used to soften a complaint into It would have been better if we had packed one. The fourth decodes fluent speech, where If she had seen it, she would have said so arrives as two apostrophes standing for two different verbs, cracked by a next-word rule and eight commit-then-check cards. Practice runs to twenty-nine explained multiple-choice items across four sets plus an eight-item test, twelve situations sorted into unreal now against unreal past, six learner repairs and four traps: would after if, a second conditional used for a sealed past, a modal with its have missing, and would of. A 134-word café debrief after a lost robotics final carries eleven tappable choices. Mixed conditionals are deliberately left to B2-19.