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Table 4. Types of conditionals
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Bog'liq English 20 ball Table 4. Types of conditionals.
TYPE
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FUNCTION
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EXAMPLE
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Zero conditional
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Express a fact or habit
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If you mix blue and yellow
paint, it turns green.
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First conditional
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Express a realistic future consequence
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If we work hard, we will be
prepared.
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Second
conditional
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Express an
unlikely or
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If I were you, I
would studymore.
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impossible future
consequence
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Third conditional
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Express an unrealistic
past consequence
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If you have called me, I would have
told you about it.
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Third type of conditionals (Second conditionals)
if + past simple, ...would + infinitive
(We can use “were” instead of “was” with ‘I’ and ‘he/she/it’. This is mostly donein formal writing).
It has two uses.
First, we can use it to talk about things in the future that are probably not going tobe true. Maybe I’m imagining some dream for example.
If I won the lottery, I would buy a big house.(I probably won't win thelottery)
If I met the Queen of England, I would say hello.
She would travel all over the world if she were rich.
She would pass the exam if she ever studied.(She never studies, so thiswon't happen)
Second, we can use it to talk about something in the present which is impossible,because it's not true. Is that clear? Have a look at the examples:
If I had his number, I would call him. (I don't have his number now, so it'simpossible for me to call him).
If I were you, I wouldn't go out with that man.
How is this different from the first conditional?
This kind of conditional sentence is different from the first conditional becausethis is a lot more unlikely.
For example (second conditional): If I had enough money I would buy a housewith twenty bedrooms and a swimming pool (I'm probably not going to have this much money, it's just a dream, not very real).
But (first conditional): If I have enough money, I'll buy some new shoes (It's much more likely that I'll have enough money to buy some shoes).
Fourth type of conditionals( Third conditionals).
When do we use the third conditional?
The third conditional is used to express the past consequence of an unrealisticaction or situation in the past.
For example:
If he had studied harder, he would have passed the exam.
The first action (studying hard) did not happen. But in the case that he happened, the consequence was passing the exam. The third conditional is very similar to the second conditional. But while the second conditional refers to something unrealistic now or in the future, the third conditional refers to something unrealistic in the past.
We often use the third conditional to express regrets – describing things we are sorry happened or didn’t happen. For example,
If my alarm had gone off, I wouldn’t have been late to work.
If there hadn’t been so much traffic we wouldn’t have missed our flight.
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