Complete the advice given to a friend who is seriously considering adopting a wild raccoon as an indoor pet. Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

Honestly, if I were you, I would rethink this entire plan. Raccoons are wild animals! Unless you actually enjoy having your sofa chewed to pieces, you should probably just get a cat.

...if I were you...

"If I were you" is a fixed subjunctive phrase used in the Second Conditional to give hypothetical advice.

...I would rethink this entire plan.

Because this is a hypothetical situation (you cannot actually be the other person), the main clause requires "would" + the base verb.

Unless you actually enjoy having your sofa chewed to pieces...

"Unless" means "if not" and is used here to describe a real, possible condition. We use the present simple tense after "unless" to talk about this real possibility (First Conditional logic).