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CONDITIONALS

(IF Sentences)
CONDITIONALS

• A way of organizing words in a sentence.


• Used for a group of sentence structures
that contain the conjunction if.
• Used to talk about a result that may
happen only if a condition happens first.
Two Parts:

• IF-CLAUSE – also called as conditional clause.


- it defines the event or situation
that must happen or must be true.

• MAIN CLAUSE – result clause.


- what happens after the event in
the if-clause occurs.
Sample sentence:

IF Clause

If I am late for school, my teacher gets


angry.
4 Types:

1. Zero Conditional
2. Type 1 Conditional
3. Type 2 Conditional
4. Type 3 Conditional
Zero Conditionals

• These are the things that are real, so it is


also called as real factual conditional.
• Used to talk about habits, scientific facts,
general truths, instructions and rules.
More sample sentences:

1. If you add two and two, you get four.


2. If you touch a fire, you get burned.
3. People die if they don’t eat.
4. You get water if you mix hydrogen and
oxygen.
5. If you feel sad, call me.
Type 1 Conditional

• Possible conditional.
• Used to talk about possible future events and
their likely results.
• To talk about predictions, superstitions, future
plans, warnings, offers and suggestions.
I
WILL
More sample sentences:

1. If I am late tonight, my mom will be angry.


2. If I have enough money, I will buy a pair
of new shoes.
3. If she doesn’t leave soon, she will miss
the bus.
4. I will tell her if I see her.
Type 2 Conditional

• Present hypothetical conditional.


• To imagine that the present, right now, is
different than it really is.
• Used to give advice, reasons, or imagine
that your life is different.
• Present hypothetical conditional.
• To imagine that the present, right now, is
different than it really is.
• Used to give advice, reasons, or imagine
that your life is different.
More sample sentences:
• If I lived in a big city, I would go out every
night.
• If I won the lottery, I would buy a big
house.
• If I met the Queen of England, I would say
hello.
• She would travel all over the world if she
were rich.
Type 3 Conditional
• Past unreal conditional
• Used to imagine a different past than the
one that happened.
More sample sentences:
• If she had studied, she would have passed
the exam.
• If we had taken a taxi, we wouldn’t have
missed the plane.
• She wouldn’t have been tired if she had
gone to bed earlier.
• If he had gone to university, he would
have became a teacher.
A. Identifying what type.
1. If it rains, we’ll stay at home.
2. I’ll call you if come back early.
3. He would buy a house if he had a job.
4. Sheila would have been on time for the interview if he
had left the house at 9.
5. Snakes bite if they are scared.
6. If you brush your teeth everyday, you will have fewer
cavities.
7. We would have helped Liza if we’d known about her
issues with the principal.
8. If you leave your place before 5:00 PM, you’ll be in my
house for dinner.
9. If she finds a job, she will be happy.
10. If I had enough money, I would take a trip to Maldives.
11. If I had time, I would have watched the news last night.
12. If the temperature falls below zero, it freezes.
13. If you buy that car, you’ll be sorry.
14. If I had studied more, I would have done better on the
test.
15. I would tell you If I knew the answer.
B. Write the correct verb and its type.
(2 pts. each)
16. If I (be) _______ a millionaire, I would help the needy.
17. She (be) _______ happy if she married him.
18. I (catch) _______ the next train if I hurry up.
19. If we had listened to the radio, we (hear) ______ the
news.
20. If you (switch) ______ on the lights, you would not have
fallen over from the chair.
Answers
1. Type 1 13. Type 1
2. Type 1 14. Type 3
3. Type 2 15. Type 2
4. Type 3 16. Were – Type 2
5. Zero 17. Would be – Type 2
6. Type 1 18. Will catch – Type 1
7. Type 3 19. Would have heard – Type 3
8. Type 1 20. Had switched – Type 3
9. Type 1
10. Type 2
11. Type 3
12. Zero

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