“It sounds as if the situation is unlikely to improve.” Note: My interpretation is that the situation is likely to improve; only someone made it sound unlikely. So, shouldn’t the sentence be written a

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“It sounds as if the situation is unlikely to improve.” Note: My interpretation is that the situation is likely to improve; only someone made it sound unlikely. So, shouldn’t the sentence be written as: “It sounds as if the situation WERE unlikely to improve”? What do you think about the sentence? Is it grammatically correct? Thanks

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You can understand "it sounds as if..." to mean "it seems to me that..." This is just the speaker's personal opinion, so we cannot know the reality of the situation.

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