Remote possibility and the unreal present
The second conditional can refer to future or present time depending on whether the verb in the if-clause is an action or state verb. Referring to the future it expresses a remote possibility, compared to the first conditional. And when it refers to the present, it expresses an impossible hypothesis.
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