CONDITIONALS REVISION Conditional Sentence Type 1 Form if















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CONDITIONALS: REVISION • Conditional Sentence Type 1 • Form: if + Simple Present, will- future – If I find her address, I’ll send her an invitation.
Conditional Sentence Type 2 • It is possible but very unlikely, that the condition will be fulfilled. • Form: if + Simple Past, Conditional I (= would + Infinitive) – If I found her address, I would send her an invitation
Conditional Sentence Type 3 • It is impossible that the condition will be fulfilled because it refers to the past • Form: if + Past Perfect, Conditional II (= would + have + Past Participle) – If I had found her address, I would have sent her an invitation.
Quick Revision • A father asks his son why he hasn’t done homework. What do you think he is going to answer?
If I do my homework, I’ll get good grades. If I get good grades, you’ll send me to university. If I go to university, I’ll graduate and get a job. If I get a job, I might get fired. If I get fired, I could go bankrupt and lose everything. That’s why I didn’t do my homework!”—
Mixed conditionals • Unreal conditionals (type II + III) sometimes can be mixed, that is, the time reference of the if clause may be different from the one of the main clause.
Past –> Present If I had taken an aspirin, I wouldn’t have a headache now
Past –> Future If I had known that you are going to come by tomorrow, I would be in then
Present –> Past If she had enough money, she could have done this trip to Hawaii.
Present –> Future If I were you, I would be spending my vacation in Seattle.
Future –> Past If I weren’t flying to Detroit, I would have planned a trip to Vancouver.
Future –> Present If I were taking this exam next week, I would be high-strung.
PRACTICE • http: //www. englishpage. com/conditional/conditiona l 10. htm • If or Unless: http: //www. usingenglish. com/quizzes/23. html • Mixed Conditionals: http: //www. usingenglish. com/quizzes/226. html
Instead of IF RESULT CONDITION Provided/provoding that Provided no one was looking, I’d take as much paper as I needed. As long as I’d tell a security guard as long as he/she agreed not to call the police Even if (=it doesn’t matter whether the situation in the if clause exists or not) I’d take the books, even if I had to pay a fine Imagine/Suppose (=form a picture in your mind about what something could be like) Imagine/Suppose you found some library books that were due back eight months ago, would you return them? Assuming(=accepting that something is true) Assuming no one else saw the boy, I’d just tell him to return the things he’d stolen