Conditionals

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Conditional Type 0:

If you don’t water flowers, they die.

conditional type : a fact / general truth

If clause:

Present Simple

Main clause:

Present Simple

Conditional Type 1:

If the weather is nice, we will go for a picnic.

If you don’t apologize, she will never trust you again.

Conditional type 1:

possible situation in present or future.

If clause:

Present Simple

Main clause:

Future Simple

Jack wants to buy a house now but he can’t, because he doesn’t have any money.

If I had a lot of money,

I would buy a big house.

Conditional Type 2:

Susan wants to phone Paul now but she can’t, because she doesn’t know his number.

If I knew his number,

I would phone him.

Conditional Type 2:

If I had a lot of money, I would buy a big house.

If I knew his number, I would phone him.

if-clause:Past Simple

main clause: would + infinitive

Conditional Type 2:

Conditional Type 2:

Impossible situation in the present or fututre.

Now let’s answer these questions:

1- What does Jack wish now?

2- What does Susan wish now?

Present wish:

Jack wishes he had a lot of money.

Susan wishes she knew Paul’s number.

wish + Subject + Past Simple

Present wish:

Conditional Type 3:

Jack wanted to buy a house last year but he couldn’t do that because he didn’t have any money.

If I had had a lot of money,

I would have bought a big house.

Conditional Type 3:

Yesterday, Susan wanted to phone Paul but she couldn’t, because she didn’t know his number.

If I had known his number,

I would have phoned him.

Conditional Type 3:

If I had had a lot of money, I would have bought a big house.

If I had known his number, I would have phoned him.

if-clause:Past Perfect

main clause:would + have + past participle

Conditional Type 3:

Impossible situation in the past

Past Wish:

Now let’s answer these questions:

1- What did Jack wish last year?

2- What did Susan wish yesterday?

Past Wish:

Jack wished he had had a lot of money.

Susan wished she had known Paul’s number.

Wish + Subject + Past perfect

The End