Conditional Tenses and Modal Verbs: Usage and Differences, Esercizi di Lingua Inglese

IF + SIMPLE PRESENT + WILL FUTURE = FIRST CONDITIONAL

If you don't start now, we won't finish the assignment on time.

IF + PAST SIMPLE + WOULD + VERB = SECOND CONDITIONAL

If I had some money, I would buy a new car

We use SAY, either in direct speech (I said: “I'm going!”) or reported speech (I said I was

going)

We use TELL when we have the person you're telling (I told her I was going or I told him to

go or I told them what to do)