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STUDY GUIDE Ex: If we hadn’t practiced, we wouldn’t have won the match.

If I had known you were coming, I would have cooked dinner.


(But I didn't know, so I didn't cook dinner.)
CONDITIONALS – described as the result of something that
might happen (in the present or future) or might have If she had taken the job, she would have moved to a new city.
happened but didn’t (in the past). They are made using (But she didn't take the job, so she didn't move.)
different English verb tenses.
If we had gone to the concert, we would have seen our
TYPES OF CONDITIONALS favorite band.

Zero Conditionals – to show or express a general truth or a Remember: the third conditional is all about unreal situations
routine. If (When) + present simple + present simple in the past. It’s not about what did happen but what could have
happened in a different past.
Ex: If you heat ice, it melts.

Explanation: In this sentence, the condition is “If you heat


ice,” and the result is “it melts.” This is a general truth. It’s Ex:
always the case that if you heat ice, it melts.
Zero Conditionals: If I clean the house, I always
First Conditionals – used to talk about future events and include the comfort room.
their likely results. If (When) + Simple Present + Will/Won’t +
Base form of the verb. First Conditionals: If I clean the house, I will
always include the comfort room.
Ex: If it rains, I will stay at home.

Explanation: “If it rains,” and the result is “I will stay at Second Conditionals: If I cleaned the house, I would
home.” This is a real possibility: It might rain, and if it does, I always include the comfort room.
will stay at home.
Third Conditionals: If I had cleaned the house, I
Remember: the first conditional is all about real possibilities in would have always included the comfort room.
the future. It’s not about general truths or hypothetical
situations. It’s about what might happen.

Second Conditionals: describe present or future situations


that are not very likely to happen or situations that now are
actually impossible but perhaps were possible at some point in
the past. (If (When) + simple past + would + base form)

Ex: If I won the lottery, I would buy a house.

Explanation: In this sentence, the condition is “If I won the


lottery,” and the result is “I would buy a house.” This is an
unreal situation. I probably won’t win the lottery, but if I did, I
would buy a house.

Remember: the second conditional is all about unreal or


improbable situations. It’s not about what will happen but
what could happen in an alternate reality.

Third Conditionals: talk about things that were possible in


the past, but that didn’t happen or can no longer happen
now, which means they are actually impossible/ unreal events.
If (When) + [past perfect], … would have + [past participle].

Ex: If I had studied harder, I would have passed the exam.

Explanation: the condition is “If I had studied harder,” and


the result is “I would have passed the exam.”

Ex: If I had won a million, I would have started a business of


my own.

Ex: If he had met her, he would have told her.

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