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    Conditional tenses are used to talk about hypothetical or speculative situations. There are five main ways to construct conditional sentences in English using an if-clause and a main clause. The conditional tense is often referred to as the "unreal past" because it uses past tense verbs to talk about events or situations that are hypothetical rather than things that actually happened in the past.

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    Conditional

    Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have
    happened, and what we wish would happen. In English, most sentences using the
    conditional contain the word if. Many conditional forms in English are used in
    sentences that include verbs in one of the past tenses. This usage is referred to as "the
    unreal past" because we use a past tense but we are not actually referring to something
    that happened in the past. There are five main ways of constructing conditional
    sentences in English. In all cases, these sentences are made up of an if clause and a main
    clause. In many negative conditional sentences, there is an equivalent sentence
    construction using "unless" instead of "if"

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    1) If I (wake up) late, I (be) late for work....

    2) If my husband (cook) , he (burn) the food....

    3) If Julie (not/wear) a hat, she (get) sunstroke....

    4) If children (not/eat) well, they (not/be)healthy...


    5) If you (mix) water and electricity, you (get) a
    shock.

    6) If people (eat) too many sweets, they (get) fat....

    7) If you (smoke) , you (get) yellow fingers....

    8) If children (play) outside,


    they (not/get)overweight...

    9) If you (heat) ice, it (melt)...

    10) If I (speak) to John, he (get) annoyed....

    11) I (feel) good the next day if I (go) to bed early.


    12) Lots of people (come) if Jenny (have) a
    party....

    13) She (buy) expensive clothes if


    she (go)shopping....

    14) My daughter (pass) her exams if


    she (work)hard....

    15) David (be) sick if he (drink) milk....

    16) The river (freeze) if it (be) very cold....

    17) I (like) to visit the museums if I (be) in a new


    city....

    18) I (cycle) to work if the weather (be) fine...

    19) My flatmate (clean) really well if she (clean)the


    house....
    20) Everybody (be) grumpy if it (rain) a lot..

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