conditional

• 0 conditional: if + present, present (facts)

• If you press this button, the engine stops
• 1 conditional: if + present, will+ inf/command
(probability)
• If she rings this evening, I’ll let you know
• 2 conditional: if +past simple/cont, would +inf (unreal ,
hypothetical, improbable)
• What would you do if you became president?
• 3 conditional: if + past perfect, would + perfect infinitive
(impossible to change)
• If I hadn’t seen her, she’d have drowned
 First conditional
• If : on condition, as long as , providing,
provided that, unless, if not.

• If I study very hard , I’ll pass the exam

• I’ll pass the exam as long as I study hard
• Unless you…

• If I studied hard, I’d pass the exam

 Formal conditionals
• If you dont hesitate, please contact us
• Should you not hesitate, please contact us (1st cond)
• If he didn’t push the button, we would all have problems
• Were he not to push the buttom, we…. (2 cond)
• If I wasn’t ridiculously rich, I think I would still work
• Were I not ridiculously rich, ….
• If they hadn’t been more polite, they would have been appointed
as team leaders
• Had they not been more polite, ……

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• If I became president, I’d stop wars
• Were I to become president…

• To infinitive to play
• Bare infinitive play
• Perfect infinitive (to) have played

• Will would
• Can could
• Shall should
• May might
• Must had to
• Have to had to
 Wish- if only
• I would like to apply for this job, but I don’t speak
English
• I wish…I spoke English to…………apply for this job
(desire)
• I regret I didn’t buy that house. I could have sold it for
more.
• I wish…I had bought that house to…..sell it for more
(regret)
• I can’t stand that dog barking all the time!
• I wish…that dog would stop…….barking (a complaint)
 I wish- I’d rather/sooner- if only
• I’d rather you studied more (present)
• I’d rather you had studied more (past)
• I’d rather study more/I’d rather have studied more

• Would rather + past simple

• + past perfect
• + bare infinitive/perfect infinitive when the
subject is the same
 Special conditionals
• She didn’t study languages. She can’t apply for
this position
• studied
• If…she had studied languages , she could apply…
for this position
• You shouldn’t have expected me to call you. I
don’t use mobile phones
• phoned
• If I used mobile phones, I would have .called you.
• What would you do if you won the lottery?
• Supposing……………………………..you do?
• Why don’t you stop crying every time I tell you
the truth? Tom said to Mary
• Tom suggested…(that) she stop crying every time
he ….told her the truth
• You should start studying for the exam
• It’s (high/about) time……to start/you started
studying for the exam
• Sometimes I would like to say what I think.
Everybody would get hurt
 suggest
• Why don’t we go to the cinema
• She suggested + gerund
• She suggested going to the cinema
• Why don’t you stop crying every time I tell you
the truth? Tom said to Mary
• He suggested that she stop crying….
• Suggest +( that +) S + (should +) bare infinitive
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