Are verbs correctly used in hypothetical situations?

[Tanguatlay]

Could someone confirm that the verbs in bold print are correctly used? I am confused by verbs used in hypothetical situations.

Thanks in advance.

If I were a millionaire, I would travel round the world. I would buy what my parents liked to eat. I would have a chauffeur to drive them around to buy anything they liked.

I would buy my children things they enjoyed eating and books they enjoyed reading. I would hire a servant for each of my children. Every one of the servants should love children and be able to read to them.

I would employ a chef to cook food for my family. He would preferably love children so that he would be able to converse with them when he was free.

[EndlessHope]

Hi,
you rather need a pinch to wake up from your daydreams.
just kidding :wink: .
But I think those words you underlined should come without -ed.
lets see.

EndlessHope

[Tanguatlay]

Could another member confirm whether what EndlessHope said is correct?

Thanks.

[Kitosdad]

EH is correct. NEVER doubt a pretty lady.

I was a millionaire. I travelled round the world. I bought what my parents liked to eat. I had a chauffeur to drive them around to buy anything they liked.

I bought my children things they enjoyed eating and books they enjoyed reading. I hired a servant for each of my children. Every one of the servants loved children and were able to read to them.

I employed a chef to cook food for my family. He loved children so that he would be able to converse with them when he was free

In this context your version was correct. EH is correct.
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[Esl_Expert]

[Tanguatlay]

Thanks to all of you.

[Tom]

Hi Esl_Expert

Your answer turned out to be a complete lesson. Many thanks for the effort. However, I would like some light shed on this point.

[Esl_Expert]

I wasn't actually focused on why I used the word "it" when I wrote that sentence, Tom, but I would say that I used "it" rather than "one" primarily because of the use of "anything" in the previous sentence. The three things mentioned in the second sentence simply serve as possible examples of "anything".

The second set of sentences is different. The word "one" refers to a single (and grammatically countable) item in each sentence. You may have also noticed that I did not refer to "a pile of diamonds" as "one". In theory I could have used "one" for that, too -- i.e. in order to refer to "one pile". However, since this sort of pile would consist of many individual diamonds, each of which would presumably have to be paid for separately before being added to the pile, for example, it didn't seem terribly appropriate to refer to that as "one".

[Tom]

I am simply grateful, EE.

Tom