Hypothetical and conditional forms
- "Would cinema be better off if George Lucas had ditched the films..."
Mix 3/2: hypothetical past (if had ditched) affects a hypothetical present (would cinema be)
- "How would cinema have been affected had Akira Kurosawa made it as a painter and never made Seven Samurai?"
3 Unreal past
- "What if the 1998 best picture Oscar had gone not to Shakespeare in Love, but Gummo?"
3 Unreal past
- "Where would we be now had there never been a Star Wars?"
Mix 3/2: hypothetical past (had there never been) affects a hypothetical present (would we be)
