Group5
A.General verb
1.Uncertain to the present condition
If permanent jobs are created in the numbers that are required, it seems that this can reduce the unemployment rate.
2.Uncertain to the future condition
If, in the next five years of our democracy, we still have good and positive economic indicators not translating into better social and economic conditions for ordinary people on the ground, the government will have no choice but to revisit the policy choices it has been making over the past decade.
3.Contrast to the present condition
If the leading party in South Africa had a solution to the unemployment crisis, millions of South Africans might work hard in paying jobs right now.
4.Contrast to the past condition
If the white rule had not ended in 1994, millions of job opportunities would not have been lost in South Africa.
B.Verb be
5.Uncertain to the present condition
If the economy grows at current levels, jobs shall be created in the required numbers in South Africa.
6.Uncertain to the future condition
If those lacking the skills that are required in the labor market remain untrained, they would still be unemployed, even if there were proactive economic policies in place.
7.Contrast to the present condition
If South Africans were better educated, there would be more job opportunities waiting for them.
8.Contrast to the past condition
If there had never had what we call the ¡§Industrial Revolution¡¨ or the ¡§Digital Revolution¡¨, people on the earth might have been happier than they are now.
C.Wish
9.Contrast to the present condition (general verb)
I wish everyone on this planet had a good job and lived with people they trust.
10.Contrast to the present condition (verb be)
I wish that there were more positive political agendas practiced in this world.
11.Contrast to the past condition (general verb)
I wish weapons had never been invented.
12.Contrast to the past condition (verb be)
I wish that there had never been ¡§race discrimination¡¨ in this world.
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