Conditionals
Let's study
Types of Conditionals
How we make sentences in each type
When we use the conditonals
Zero Conditional
If you stay in the rain, you get wet.
First Conditional
If I have enough money, I'll go to a safari
trip next summer.
Second Conditional
If I won the lottery, I would travel the
world.
Third Conditional
If we'd bought a guidebook, we would
have known which places to visit.
Zero Conditional
If you stay in the rain, you get wet.
Present Simple
Present Simple
First Conditional
If I have enough money, I'll go to a safari trip next summer.
Present Simple
Future Simple
Second Conditional
If I won the lottery, I would travel the world.
Past Simple
would/could
Third Conditional
If we'd bought a guidebook, we would have known which places to visit.
Past Perfect
would/could have + past particile
Zero
Conditional
scientific facts, general truths, laws
of nature
First
Conditional
real situations likely to happen in
the present or future
Second
Conditional
advice, unreal or imaginary
situation unlikely to happen in the
present or future
Third
Conditional
imaginary situation in the past,
regrets, unfulfilled plans, wishes
impossible to fulfill or criticism
What can we use instead of "if"?
when
as long as
suppose/
supposing
unless = if not
on condition
that
since
provided/
providing that
even if
as
More info
If-clause shows the condition and main clause shows the
result.
The if-clause can precede or follow the main clause. When
it's at the beginning of the sentence, we put a comma after
the if-clause. When the main clause is first, no comma is
used.
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you!