Wind Up
The idiom "wind up" is similar to "end up." Use this to describe a place or a situation where you come to rest or finish:
- After several years of drifting, he wound up in Atlanta.She wound up in a good job after she graduated from college.Where did you wind up going last night?You can also use this for time:What time did the party wind up last night?
Specially for Beth Williams - CONDITIONALS!!!
Examples:
If I see the manager, I'll tell him you need his help.
It's possible that I see the manager, isn't it? Let's make talk about almost everyone's favorite subject - money!
If I save enough money, I'll take a trip to Italy
Possible? Totally(Let's forget that I'm a teacher for a moment...HaHa!) Now I'm imagining a situation:
If I won the lottery, I would travel around the world
(Notice that I'm using verbs in the past to express an imaginary situation in the future.(Why don't I travel around the world? I'm just a teacher. Why? because I didn't marry the millionaire who loved me. But...)
If I had married him, I would have visited any country I wanted.
Did I? No, so, it's unreal.
In other words:
- First Conditional: possible
If + present + future
- Second: imaginary
if + past + would/could
- Third: unrealIf + past perfect + would/could + present perfect
More Examples:
First Conditional:
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Second Conditional:
Third Conditional:
I lived in Italy some years ago. But if I had lived in
Paris, instead, I would have learnt French and I would have
visited the Louvre.
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