CONDITIONAL

SENTENCES
They have two parts:
- If clause: If it rains, (condition)
-- Main clause: we will stay at home (result)
 CONDITIONAL SENTENCES:
ORDER

CONDITION: If- clause , + RESULT: main clause

If it rains, we will stay at home

RESULT: Main clause + CONDITION: if clause

We will stay at home if it rains
 CONDITIONAL SENTENCES: TYPES
Type 0: Real
If you are a friendly person, you make
friends easily
Type 1: Probable
If you study, you will pass

Type 2: Improbable
If you studied, you would pass
-Type 3: Impossible
If you had studied, you would have passed
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 0
REAL PRESENT SITUATIONS
Situations that are always true
and eternal truths
Present (If- clause) / Present (main clause)
If I drink coffee in the evening, I don´t sleep
well.
You get green if you mix blue and yellow.
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 0
(variations)
When Present (If- clause) / modal (main clause)
When I drink coffee in the evening,
I can´t sleep well.
- Unless Present (If- clause) / Present / modal
(main clause)
Flowers die unless you water them (Flowers die
if you do not water them)
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 1

Situations that can really happen in the

future

Present (If- clause) / Future (main clause)

If he runs, he’ll get there in time

 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 1
(variations)
Present (If- clause) / imperative (main clause)
If you have any doubts, let me know

Present (If- clause) / modal (main clause)

If you find my money, I can buy you an icecream.
I may give you a treat.
 Unless = if not
Very often used in the Zero and first
conditional

Unless Ann moves to another city, she won’t

leave the job = If Ann doesn’t move to …

You won’t pass unless you study hard = You

won’t pass if you don’t study hard
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 2
IMAGINARY- NOT REAL PRESENT
SITUATIONS

Past S. (If- clause) / Would + infinitive (main

clause)
If I didn´t have friends, I would feel lonely
(I have friends, so I don´t feel lonely)
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 2
HYPOTHETICAL (improbable, impossible
or contrary to known facts) condition and its
probable result.
I´d lend Peter the money if he needed it.
(Improbable: I know he has enough)
If I were a bird , I´d fly to you.
(Impossible: I´m not a bird )
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 2
(variations)
Past S. (If- clause)
could / might+ infinitive (main clause)
Jane could help us if she were here
If you tried again, you might succeed
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 2
(with BE)
Were is used for the singular and the plural
If he weren’t so upset, he would phone you
If she were here, everything would be
different.
“If I were you” is a way of giving advice.
If I were you, I would ask my parents for
permission
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 3
Situations that did not happen in the PAST
Past Perfect (If- clause) / Would + have +
participle (main clause)
- If Mark and Jim had visited us, we would have
been delighted (They didn´t visit us, so we were
not delighted)
- You wouldn’t have fallen in love with her if you
had known her intentions (You fell in love with
her because you did not know her intentions)
 CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES: TYPE 3
(variations)
Past Perfect (If- clause) – could / might + have
+ participle (main clause)
If you hadn’t been so busy, we could have met
If you hadn’t gone out last night, you might have
finished the project
 TIME CLAUSES
Present (Time clause) / will + infinitive (main
clause)
WHEN / AS SOON AS / UNTIL / BEFORE / AFTER
/ONCE
I will go home as soon as (when / after / once) I finish school
I will not go home until I finish school