Three Step English for Upper Intermediate Learners - Practice #9 - Expressing Regrets About Business Decisions - Recap
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know how to express regrets about business decisions in English? |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to three-step English practice by English Class 101.com. |
| 0:09.0 | In this lesson, you'll practice how to express regrets about business decisions in English. |
| 0:15.0 | Let's look at the main dialogue. Two people are having a conversation. I wish you had checked with me first. |
| 0:23.6 | I was planning to have lunch with a friend tomorrow. |
| 0:25.6 | Oh no! |
| 0:26.6 | If only I'd called you before confirming with Miss Walton. |
| 0:30.6 | Would you like me to reschedule with her? |
| 0:32.6 | In this conversation, you saw two expressions. |
| 0:36.6 | I wish you had checked with me first and if only I'd |
| 0:40.5 | called you before confirming. Both use the structure I wish or if only plus past perfect, which |
| 0:48.1 | we used to talk about regrets about the past, something we didn't do, but now wish we had. |
| 0:54.6 | The past perfect, had plus past participle, shows that the action happened in the past and cannot |
| 1:00.9 | be changed, but we're expressing a strong feeling, usually regret or frustration, about that |
| 1:06.9 | past event. Let's practice with this grammar more in this lesson. |
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