Learning a foreign language wasn't an easy thing. At that time it was especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learned languages because they needed them for their work, others traveled abroad, for the third studying foreign languages was a hobby. Everyone, who knew foreign languages could speak to people from other countries, read foreign authors in the original, which made your outlook wider. I studied English. It was a long and slow process that took a lot of time and efforts. Over 300 million people spoke it as a mother tongue.
If he were not busy, he would come.
2. If she had studied well, she she wouldn't have got bad marks.
3. If he hadn't broken his bicycle, he would have gone to the country.
4. If he had practice, he would speak English well
5. If I hadn't had a bad headache yesterday, I would have come to see you.
6. If the ship hadn't been sailing near the coast, it wouldn't have struck a rock.
7. If he had been in town, he would have been present at our meeting.
8. If the pavement hadn't been so slippery, I wouldn't have fallen and hurt my leg.
9. If the sea were not rough, we could sail to the island.
10. If they hadn't made a fire, the wolves wouldn't have run away.
1. Если бы он не был так близорук (short-sighted), он бы узнал меня вчера в театре.
If he were not so short-sighted, he would have recognised me in the theatre yest