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Conditionals Cheatsheet
Conditionals Cheatsheet
1st conditional – something will happen in the future when a condition is met
Example: If I had a billion dollars, I would buy Inter Milan and would liquidate it.
I would help you if I could.
Formula: IF + Past Perfect (had + III form), would have + III form
Example: If the ambulance had arrived on time, the man wouldn’t have died
The trip would have been much nicer, if the weather had been better.
Mixed conditional (3rd + 2nd) – hypothesis about the present basd on an event in the past
Example: If the ambulance had arrived on time (yesterday), the man would be alive (now).
This trip would be much nicer, if we hadn’t forgotten our sleeping bags.