keannu
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If you convert the underlined, will it be "If you hear her play classical piano" or "If you heard her play classical piano"? When a to-infinitive phrase is coupled with a hypothetical "would" main clause, does the to-infinitive phrase always have an unreal possibility or a real one? I also learned that conditionals have lots of mixtures of unreal+real or real+unreal, so it's confusing. I hope the readers of this can understand easily what I mean.
ex)To hear her play classical piano, you wouldn't believe that she's blind. But 16-year-old Maria Esperanza lost her sight in an accident a few years ago. Doctors tried to save her vision, only to fail. But Maria overcame her loss. She says, "Never give up!" Next, she wants to learn jazz piano.
ex)To hear her play classical piano, you wouldn't believe that she's blind. But 16-year-old Maria Esperanza lost her sight in an accident a few years ago. Doctors tried to save her vision, only to fail. But Maria overcame her loss. She says, "Never give up!" Next, she wants to learn jazz piano.