CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

TYPE 0 – Real situations – Facts – Always true – Stimulus Response –

IF + SIMPLE PRESENT + SIMPLE PRESENT

If you touch fire, you get burned

If it rains, the floor gets wet

If you heat ice, it melts

If I don’t sleep, I am moody

If you don’t eat for 2 weeks, you die

TYPE 1 – Future or Present time – A real, possible condition

IF + SIMPLE PRESENT + WILL/WON’T+ VERB IN INF

If you don’t have dinner, you won’t have dessert

If you I go to the party, I’ll see Peter/ I’ll pick you up

If her boss doesn’t accept her holidays, she won’t be able to come// will

come anyway

If she buys the tickets on Friday, she’ll get a big discount

If I go to Manchester this weekend, I’ll watch Manchester United

If she doesn’t study, she won’t pass her exam

If I don’t buy flour, we won’t be able to make pizza

TYPE 2 – Unreal present (no time) – Imaginative idea- Hypothesis-

Supposition- Contrary to reality -Daydreaming

IF + SIMPLE PAST + WOULD/WOULDN’T+ VERB IN INF

If I spoke German, I would work in Berlin

If Coronavirus didn’t exist, I would visit my family all the time

If I had a lot hair, I would wear a quiff

If I didn’t have a car, I would walk

If I wasn’t stuck here, I’d be in Bali

If I didn’t have a cellphone, I would have more free time

TYPE 3- Unreal past time- Regret a situation -

IF + PAST PERFECT + WOULD/WOULDN’T+ HAVE + VERB IN PARTICIPLE

If I hadn’t eaten so much, I wouldn’t have been so full

If I had paid more attention, I wouldn’t have had the accident

If I had studied more, I would have passed the exam

If I hadn’t had the accident, I wouldn’t have been in hospital

If I had listened to my father, I would have studied computer engineering

MIXED CONDITIONALS

1) IF + PAST PERFECT (TYPE 3 – PAST TIME) + WOULD + INF (TYPE 2 –

PRESENT TIME)
If I had listened to my father, I would be rich (combination 1) -Condition

in the past and consequence in present.

If I hadn’t eaten so much during the quarantine, I wouldn’t be overweight

now.

If I had started exercising 2 months ago, I ‘d be fit now.

If I hadn’t spent all my saving on that computer, I’d have money now.

If Coronavirus hadn’t spread all around the world, I’d be in Congo Belga

now.

2) IF+ SIMPLE PAST (TYPE 2 Present time) + WOULD + HAVE+ PART (TYPE

3 PAST TIME)

If I were more patient, I wouldn’t have shouted at her. (combination 2)

If I had a car, I wouldn’t have taken a taxi yesterday