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Learn English: Regrets and Past Perfect Tense

Online
1.5-3 hours
Free

Course Content

Learn English with this free online course that explains how to use the subjunctive mood to discuss wishes and regrets. This course teaches English students grammar topics like past perfect tense, perfect modals, and using the subjunctive mood and terms like 'wish' and 'if only' to express regret. We also go over valuable words and phrases you can use while shopping to express 'buyer's remorse,' the emotion of wishing you had saved money. This course helps you make significant progress as you polish your English writing and speaking skills.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID196181
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration1.5-3 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Recall different words related to shopping
• Discuss the emotions sometimes experienced after spending money, including ‘buyer’s remorse’
• Outline the positive, negative and question forms and uses of the past perfect tense
• Discuss the use of the perfect modals ‘should have’ and ‘ought to have’ to express regret
• Explain how ‘wish’ is used in the subjunctive mood
• Discuss how to use ‘wish’ to form ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and information questions
• Describe strong regrets using ‘if only’ in the past perfect tense
Course Code5208

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