THIS LECTURE WILL

DISCUSS:
 English
Conditional
Sentences
 condition result
‘ If Main
clause ’ clause
If +
0 • REAL
Present Present simple
simple,
1 st
• POSSIBLE
If + Will + infinitive
Present
simple,
2nd
• UNREAL Would + infinitive
If +
past simple, Would have +
3rd • IMPSSIBLE
past participle
If +
Past perfect,

Mixed
 0 CONDITIONAL
• Reel condition
Condition result • Results that are always the
same

If+
Present simple
Present simple If you push this button, the lights
come on

If the wind The trees

blows, move.

The trees If the wind

move blows
 0 CONDITIONAL
Imperati
When you get home,call me ve If you accidentlly drop some
trash, pick it up

If Phil calls,don’t answer the

phone

IF or WHEN ?

If you put a stone in water , it when you put a stone in water ,

sinks it sinks

No difference in meaning.
Always true.
 IF or WHEN ?

IF
when

- I am certen this will happen.

Maybe this will
happen. - I am expectiong this.
When you get home, call me.
 1 CONDITIONAL
• A possible future condition
Condition result • Its possible future result

If+ WILL +
Present simple INFINITIVE

If we don’t We will miss our

leave soon, train.

If I’m late for I might lose my

work again, job.
 UNLESS 0 CONDITIONAL
If i have time , I work
The other conditional subordinator besides (if) is out
(unless).
Generally always
true
• It is used in a negative condition and means (except if):

• I am not going out unless it stops raining. 1 CONDITIONAL

• It means the same as: If i have time , I will work
out
• I am not going out if it doesn’t stop raining.
Specific future
situation
 2nd CONDITIONAL
Often called the
• Imaginary / unreal / hypothetical
condition "unreal" conditional
• Imaginary / unreal / hypothetical
Condition
result result because it is used for
Might / could
unreal, impossible or
improbable situations.
If+ would + This conditional
past simple INFINITIVE
provides an imaginary
result for a given
If I were
shorter,
I would wear heels
more
situation. It is very
unlikely that the
condition will be
fulfilled.
 3nd CONDITIONAL
• Unreal / Impossible /hepotheticle
condition
• Unreal / Impossible /hepotheticle
result IMPOSSIBLE because you
Condition result could can’t change the past

IF + past Would have +

perfect past participle

I would have made If I had known Yazid

more food and Anjjar were
coming.
If i hadn’t tripped, I could have won the
race
 0 CONDITIONAL 1st CONDITIONAL 2nd CONDITIONAL 3nd CONDITIONAL

If we drive, we If we drive, we will If we drove, we If we had driven,

get there faster get there faster would get there we would have
faster gotten there faster
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