Conditionals

Let's study
Types of Conditionals

How we make sentences in each type

When we use the conditonals

Zero Conditional
If you stay in the rain, you get wet.

First Conditional
If I have enough money, I'll go to a safari
trip next summer.

Second Conditional
If I won the lottery, I would travel the
world.

Third Conditional
If we'd bought a guidebook, we would
have known which places to visit.
Zero Conditional

If you stay in the rain, you get wet.

Present Simple Present Simple

First Conditional
If I have enough money, I'll go to a safari trip next summer.

Present Simple Future Simple

 Second Conditional
If I won the lottery, I would travel the world.

Past Simple would/could

 Third Conditional
If we'd bought a guidebook, we would have known which places to visit.

Past Perfect would/could have + past particile

Zero scientific facts, general truths, laws
Conditional of nature

First real situations likely to happen in

Conditional the present or future

Second
advice, unreal or imaginary
situation unlikely to happen in the
Conditional
present or future

Third
imaginary situation in the past,
regrets, unfulfilled plans, wishes
Conditional
impossible to fulfill or criticism
 What can we use instead of "if"?

suppose/
when as long as
supposing

on condition
unless = if not since
that

provided/
even if as
providing that
More info

If-clause shows the condition and main clause shows the

result.

The if-clause can precede or follow the main clause. When

it's at the beginning of the sentence, we put a comma after
the if-clause. When the main clause is first, no comma is
used.
Thank
you!