Second Conditional
Second Conditional
FACULTAD DE LENGUAS.
LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS.
TARGET LANGUAGE II
SPRING 2020
Teacher: PhD. María Amelia Xique Suárez
CONDITIONALS
SECOND CONDITIONAL.
Unit 10.
Conditional sentences are also known as Conditional Clauses or If Clauses.
They are used to express that the action in the main clause can only take
place if a certain condition (If clause) is fulfilled.
There are four types of conditional sentences.
ZERO SECOND
CONDITONAL CONDITIONAL
FIRST THIRD
CONDITIONAL CONDITIONAL
* The second conditional is like the first
conditional. We are still thinking about the
future. We are thinking about a particular
condition in the future, and the result of this
condition. But there is not a real possibility
that this condition will happen.
* For example, you do not have a lottery ticket.
Is it possible to win? No! No lottery ticket, no
win! But maybe you will buy a lottery ticket in
the future. So you can think about winning in
the future, like a dream. It's not very real,
but it's still possible.
As you can see, we also need two clauses: The IF
clause and the Main cluse
The IF Clause has to be in past tense. If we use
verb to be in past we have to use WERE for
everybody.