Conditional sentences

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Conditional Sentence

Conditional sentences are sentences

expressing factual implications, or

hypothetical situations and their consequences.

Three Types of Conditional Sentence

1. Open conditional statement

refers to a future event which is conditional on another future

event.e.g.If you eat too much, you’ll get fatter.

We won’t finish in time unless everyone works fast.

It also describes one potential state of reality or circumstance which is dependent on another.

e.g.

If it rains, everyone gets wet.

If the temperature falls below zero, it freezes.

2. Open hypothetical conditional statement

refers to a possible future situation which depends on another possible future situation.

e.g. If you ate too much you would get fatter.

If I went to London, I would visit the British Museum.

3. Unfulfilled hypothesis

refers to situation which an event might have taken place, but did not, because a condition was NOT fulfilled.

e.g.

If you had eaten too much, you would have got fatter.

If I had gone to London, I could have visited the British Museum.

Sentence Completion (Conditional Sentences)Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Form

a Conditional sentence. Mind the position of the if-clause.

Example:I ___________ (to bake) a cake if I _________ (to know) that they were coming.

Answer:I would have baked a cake if I had known that they were coming. orI'd have bought a a cake if I'd known that they were coming.

1) If it_____ (to be) warmer, we _____ (to go)swimming.2) My parents ______ (to buy) this house if the man______ (not/to

sell) it to someone else.3) If he_______ (not/to fail) his driving test, his parents_____ (to

lend) him their car.4) If my uncle _____(to tell) me the way to his office, I _____(not/to

arrive) so late.5) She _______(to be) at the airport if she ______(to read) the message

carefully.6) Lucy ______(not/to hurt) her foot if she______(not/to drop) the old

box.7) If you______ (to use) a sharp knife, you (not/to cut) yourself.8) If Victoria (to celebrate) her birthday at home, I ______(to bring) her

some flowers.9) We ______(to take) the train to Edinburgh if it ________ (to run) on

time.10) If Max ______(not/to forget) my schoolbag, he _____to give) you

your USB flash drive.