Grammar (Fach) / Hypothetical past situations grammar (Lektion)

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• to talk about events which were intended to take place, but which did not happen (3 structures)   was going to were going to   was about to were about to   had been thinking of going to was thinking of going to    
• The meeting, which ... place last weekend, was unexpectedly cancelled.     was to have taken
• to express how we would like the past to have been different. (2 structures)     would + like/love/prefer + to + perfect infinitive   would + have + liked/loved/preferred + to + infinitive/perfect infinitive  
• We would like to have stayed longer but we had to catch the train     form 1
• she would have loved to tell him what she thought of him.     form 2, a)
• she would have loved to have told him what she thought of him.     form 2, b)
• if the subject of would like... is not the same as the subject of the following verb...     a noun or pronoun is inserted before the infinitive:   she would have preferred him to say it to her face.
• another possibility:   would + rather/sooner + perfect infinitive   We stayed in a hotel but I would sooner have slept in a tent.
• If the subject of would rather/sooner is not the same as the subject of the following verb... the past perfect is used.   Would you rahter I hadn't said anything about it to Matt?

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