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Student: Jorge James

CONDITIONALS

TYPE 1

IF + PRESENT, FUTURE

If I can , I’ll do it

SHOULD + INFINITIVE = LIKELY

IF + SUBJECT + SHOULD + INFINITIVE

If the situation should not improve, we will be…

INVERSION: SHOULD + SUBJECT + INFINITIVE

Should the situation not improve, we will be…

TYPE 2

IF + PAST, CONDITIONAL ( reference to the future )

If I were rich, I would buy a mansion

WERE TO + INFINITIVE = LIKELY

IF + SUBJECT+ WERE/ WAS + TO INFINITIVE

If I were to have a lot of money…

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INVERSION: WERE / WAS + SUBJECT+ TO INFINITIVE

Was/ were I to have a lot of money, I would…

TYPE 3

IF + PAST PERFECT, PERFECT CONDITIONAL – WOULD HAVE DONE ( Reference to

the past )

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

Had I had a lot of money, I would have bought a yatch. ( INVERSION )

If it had not been for the rain, I would have gone out.

Had it not been for the rain, I would have gone out. ( INVERSION )

But for the rain, I would have gone out ( BUT FOR )

MIXED

If I had money, I would have bought…

If I had had money, now I would be able to pay all my debts.

If I had bought a better knife, I wouldn’t have cut my finger.

If I hadn’t cut my finger, I wouldn’t be bleeding now.

If I hadn’t been bleeding now, I wouldn’t stained my floor.

If I hadn’t gone to the supermarket with this hair, they wouldn’t call me crazy.

If they hadn’t call me crazy, I wouldn’t be stress now.