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Conditionals
Conditionals
Characteristics
Sample Sentences
When the temperature falls below 32 degrees, water freezes.
If James comes home late from school, his mother gets angry.
Examples 1
Characteristics
● First conditional sentences are also factual.
● For this reason first conditional sentences describe relations that
only happen one time.
● Another difference is that the verb in the effect clause will be in the
future tense, and the cause or conditional clause will be in present
tense.
Sample Sentences
If the prices of wheat and other farm commodities continue to fall, the country
will borrow more money to pay its expenses.
If I find a job in the city, I will sell my house and get an apartment downtown.
Examples 2
Characteristics
● Second conditional sentences are said to be untrue or unreal.
● The condition has not occurred.
● The second conditional expresses hypothetical situations.
● They express what is possible but has not happened.
● The first clause is written in past tense and
● The second clause is written with the modal “would”+ base of the V.
(which expresses an imaginary situation.)
Sample Sentences
If Victor treated his classmates more nicely, he would have more friends.
More patients would survive heart attacks if they got to the hospital faster.
Examples 3
Characteristics
● Third conditional sentences are said also untrue or unreal.
● The cause or condition has not occurred.
● The conditional clause is written in past perfect. and
● The effect clause is expressed using the modal “would” and the present
perfect form of the verb.
Sample Sentences
If the bank had not taken steps to lower interest rates, the economy would have
declined. Q: Did the bank lower interest rates? Yes.
My parents would have moved to California if my mother had gotten the job with that
company. Q: Did her mother get the job? No.
Examples 4
● 4. If the dam had not been built, this whole area will have been flooded.
a. the
b. this
c. will
d. flooded
Exercises
Zero Conditional
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/conditional/zero-conditional-forms
First Conditional
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/conditional/first-conditional-1
Second Conditional
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/conditional/second-conditional-1
Third Conditional
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/conditional/third-conditional-1
Mixed Conditionals
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/conditional/first-second
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/conditional/first-second-third
Bibliography