Lesson 16, Exercise 10: Mrs Scott & the Northern French, Part 3 of 3
Mrs Scott makes a distinction between 2 types of French
people.
Subtitled video:
Mrs
Scott uses the second conditional tense: if she had the opportunity, she would
not make a best friend of a French person. This verb tense is for a future
action which is not probable. The Real English summary
of this tense is here.
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