Mixed Conditionals: a mistake or correct? Dear native speakers of English, I have a question to you. In one of the famous coursebooks of the Upper-Intermediate level I have found this task: Make conditional sentences based on the information in these situations. 1. I don't use the dishwasher much, because no one told me that you use more water washing dishes by hand. I would answer like this: If someone had told me that washing dishes by hand uses more water, I would use the the dishwasher more (the Past Simple is used in the last part because it is related to the present life and from time to time I use it). But The Techer's Book gives the answer like this: If someone had told me that washing dishes by hand uses more water, I would have used the the dishwasher more. The question is why we use would + the Perfect infinitive in the last part? The situation is about the present, not about what could have happened in the past. Look forward to your ideas impatiently!One more situation: We bought a cheap dishwasher that wasn't very efficient. As a result, we use a lot more water than we need to. The answer: "If we hadn't bought such a cheap dishwasher, we would use much less water. " But they already use more water. Following this logic, we should say "we would have used less water". What about this situation? Why do they use Conditional 2 in the answer in the last part?

Mixed conditionals: a mistake or correct?

Dear native speakers of English, I have a question to you. In one of the famous coursebooks of the Upper-Intermediate level I have found this task:

Make conditional sentences based on the information in these situations.

1. I don't use the dishwasher much, because no one told me that you use more water washing dishes by hand.

I would answer like this:

If someone had told me that washing dishes by hand uses more water, I would use the the dishwasher more (the Past Simple is used in the last part because it is related to the present life and from time to time I use it).

But The Techer's Book gives the answer like this:

If someone had told me that washing dishes by hand uses more water, I would have used the the dishwasher more.

The question is why we use would + the Perfect infinitive in the last part? The situation is about the present, not abou what could have happened in the past.

Look forward to your ideas impatiently!

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