When you use the PAST TENSE to talk about THE FUTURE | Unreal past [Weird English]

We talk about the unreal past with WISH, IF ONLY, SUPPOSE, WHAT IF, CONDITIONALS, HAD BETTER and soup...mostly mulligatawny soup. We use the past tense to talk about the present and future. Yes, English is sometimes weird.
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How come that thanni becomes tawny Th as in mouth n as in pen with double articulation I as in city What has the pronunciation toni to do with that? Eastern mispeincuatiins are the result of misteaching.and sometimes bad teaching.

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Even though the content is really useful, I find it extremely difficult to apply while talking. For native speakers like you, things would come intuitively. But being a non-native speaker, it takes too much effort to apply these rules in daily conversations making you almost paralytic. Even while watching the video, I can't form the right sentences. I can't imagine what a task it would be to think about these grammar rules before forming a sentence in my head while talking. Of course, I have the liberty of time while writing but while talking, it's a different ball game for us. Thanks for the content anyways.

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@Don Francis that's how I often feel too.

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I wish I could have some mulligatawny....

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Thanks a lot for this video, it helped me to understand this rule I want you to make a video about IF and its alternatives

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I love love love the unreal past.My fav tense.

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“I hope I will/can see her tonight,” but “I (had) hoped I would/could see her tonight,” as it implicitly didn’t come to pass, but yet “I (had) hoped I would/could see her tonight… and I did!”

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Diachronically speaking, the "unreal past" is of course just the old subjunctive mood. Fairly easy, for once, for German native speakers: in "I wish I had", had means hätte, not hatte. It almost comes naturally.

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