Conditional Sentences: Understanding Different Types and Their Uses, Apuntes de Inglés

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Conditional Sentences

Conditional Types

First Type: Possible & Probable conditions

Second Type: Possible & Improbable conditions

Third Type: Impossible conditions. Regrets

Zero Type: General truths or Natural laws

Zero Type : General truths or Natural laws

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

Simple Present Simple Present

If you boil water, it evaporates.

When asteroids are tiny, they are hard to detect.

If you heat ice, It melts.

Unless you water plants, they die.

Zero Type: General truths or Natural laws

First Type: Possible & Probable conditions

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

Present Simple Future / Imperative / Modals If you come, I will be happy If you want to pass, study! If we buy a ticket, we will go (go) to the concert If she arrives soon, she will come with us If they dance too much, they will get tired If you need my car, take it

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

If you drink (drink) a lot, I will leave (leave) you

If the road is (be) wet, Watch out (watch out)!

If he loses (lose) his key, you will lend (lend) him yours

If she .............. (not buy) any food, we ................(have dinner)

If they ......... (not stop) talking, we .......... (not finish) our lesson

If you ....... (take) the dog for a walk, I ................ (give) you some money

First Type: Possible & Probable conditions

First Type: Possible & Probable conditions

Second Type: Possible & Improbable conditions

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

Past Simple Would /Could/Might + root verb

If she studied she would pass her controls

If he ran he would catch the bus

If I went to China I could be with him

If I were ..................... ....................................

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

If you drank a lot I would/could/ might leave you.

If the road were wet You would have an accident.

If he lost his key You would lend him yours.

If she didn’t buy any food We would have dinner.

If they didn’t stop talking We would not finish our lesson

If you took the dog for a walk I would give you some money

Second Type: Possible & Improbable conditions

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

Past Perfect Would/Could/ Might have + p.p.

If it hadn't rained

We would have gone to the country If she had studied She ............ (pass) her controls If you ................... (invite) them They'd have come to the party If I had known it I .......................(arrive) earlier If he............................. (phone) I'd have seen him

Third Type: Impossible conditions. Regrets

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

If you ........ (drink) a lot I .......... (leave) you

If the road ............ (be) wet You ............(have) an accident

If he .......... (lose) his key You ................ (lend) him yours

If she .............. (not buy) any food We ................(have dinner)

If they ......... (not stop) talking We .......... (not finish) our lesson

If you ....... (take) the dog for a walk I ................ (give) you some money

Third Type: Impossible conditions. Regrets

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

If you had drunk a lot I would/could/might have left you

If the road had been wet You ’d have had (have) an accident

If he had lost (lose) his key You ’d have lent (lend) him yours

If she hadn’t bought (not buy) any food

We ’d have had dinner (have dinner) If they hadn’t stopped (not stop) talking

We wouldn’t have finished (not finish) our lesson

If you had taken (take) the dog for a walk

I ’d have given (give) you some money

Third Type: Impossible conditions. Regrets

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE

If you had missed the train, I wouldn’t have seen (not see) you

If he lost the map,

he wouldn’t find (not find) the house If he forgets (forget) the book, the teacher will get angry If she weren’t so mean, everybody would be (be) happier

If they hadn’t insulted (not insult) me,

I wouldn’t have called them names

If you tell my secret,

I will never forgive (never forgive) you

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