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Monday, January 18, 2010

If Haiti were a bank ...

It must be difficult to produce a cartoon about the calamity of the earthquake in Haiti, but seeing that the international aid is so slow in reaching the country, The Guardian's Steve Bell's cartoon depicts the situation brilliantly.
You can easily figure out the rest of the sentence: If Haiti were a bank ... "help would have arrived / would be arriving much faster", or something to that effect (remember the many banks we have had to rescue lately due to the crisis).
Language note: This is a Conditional 2 sentence (used to express hypothetical situations). The tenses involved are Past - Conditional, the past tense being used as a subjuntive.
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2 comments:

Romuald said...

If Haiti were a bank from the western part of the world, it would be rebuilt immediately. Wouldn't it?

20:28
Ona said...

If Haiti were a bank even the dead would be brought back to life!

13:56

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