Conditionals in English Conditionals in English Aleksandra Dinić Aleksandra Dinić Prva niška gimnazija “Stevan Sremac” Prva niška gimnazija “Stevan Sremac”
May 26, 2015
Conditionals in EnglishConditionals in English
Aleksandra DinićAleksandra Dinić
Prva niška gimnazija “Stevan Prva niška gimnazija “Stevan Sremac”Sremac”
FIRST CONDITIONALRule
• In this sentences, both verbs refer to actions or events in future.
• The verb tense after the words IF or UNLESS is the PRESENT SIMPLE.
• The verb tense in the condition clause is WILL/WON’T.
Examples
If you aren’t careful, you will cause an accident.
Unless you go shopping with me, I won’t help you with your essay.
I will buy you this T-Shirt if you want. I won’t repair your bike unless you pass your
exams.
SECOND CONDITIONALRule
• We use IF with the Past Simple Tense (to introduce the condition) , and WOULD + INFINITIVE (to show the consequence) when we want to show that a situation is unreal or unlikely.
• It is also possible to use COULD (for possibility and ability) or WOULDN’T (for uncertainty) instead of WOULD (for certainty) .
Examples
What would you do if you won $ 1 milion?
If I had more money, I would buy a new PC.
I wouldn’t need a bike if I had a car.
If you found a wallet in a nightclub, what would you do?
I Conditional vs. II Conditional
• If my parents give me more pocket money, I will be very happy.
• It’s possible to get more money
• If my parents gave me more pocket money, I would be very happy.
• It’s not possible to get more money
THIRD CONDITIONALRule
• To speculate how past actions and results might have been different we use IF + PAST PERFECT and WOULD + Past participle.
• We use WOULD (for certainty) and WOULDN’T (for uncertainty).
Examples
If LA Lakers hadn’t got to the final, Peter wouldn’t have watched the game on TV.
If I hadn’t gone to the club last Saturday, I wouldn’t have met him.
If I had taken the shot, I would have scored. If I had listened to my dad, I might have
made some better decisions in my life.
ZERO CONDITIONALRule
• We use PRESENT SIMPLE in both parts of the sentence.
• With Zero Conditional we express facts.
Examples
If you throw rock into the water, it sinks.
If you are rich, you have expensive clothes and fabulous car.
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