CONDITIONALS

FIRST CONDITIONAL

1st PRESENT SIMPLE WILL Probable situations

If I leave home now, I will be at work on time.

SECOND CONDITIONAL

2nd PAST SIMPLE WOULD Improbable, not real

If you lived in England, you would speak English fluently.

2nd PAST SIMPLE WOULD Advice

If I were you, I would study harder.

THIRD CONDITIONAL

PAST PERFECT Past situations,

3rd WOULD HAVE +V3
(HAD + V3) regrets

If I had remembered your birthday, I would have called you.

WISHES (wish or if only /ojalá)

PRESENT SITUATION

Present situation PAST SIMPLE

I wish I lived in a bigger house.

PAST SITUATION

PAST PERFECT
Past situation
(HAD + V3)

I wish I have finished my project last night.

3rd PERSON ANNOYING IN PRESENT

3rd person annoying in present WOULD

I wish Carla wouldn’t listen to music every night.

MODALS OF DEDUCTIONS
MUST I’m sure (100%)
COULD
MAY Maybe (50%)
MIGHT
CAN’T I’m sure not (0%)

PRESENT SITUATION

Present situation MV + INFINITIVE

PRESENT CONTINUOUS SITUATION

Present continuous MV + BE + ING

Perhaps Sarah is training right now.

Sarah may be training right now.

PAST SIMPLE SITUATION

Past simple MV + HAVE + V3

I’m sure Kelly forgot her keys at home.

Kelly must have forgotten her keys at home.

PAST CONTINUOUS SITUATION

Past continuous MV + HAVE BEEN + ING