CONDITIONAL

SENTENCE
ELC
 Conditionals
CONDITION RESULT

If you stand in the rain, you get wet.

Facts which are
ZERO generally true
If you heat ice, it melts.

PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT SIMPLE

If it rains, we will cancel the trip.

FIRST Possible situation in
If you study, you will pass the exam. the future

PRESENT SIMPLE WILL / WON’T + V1

 Conditionals
CONDITION RESULT
If I won the lottery, I would travel a lot.
Unreal or
SECOND If they sold their house, They would be rich. improbable situation
now or in the future
PAST SIMPLE WOULD + V1

If you had studied, you would have passed the

exam.
THIRD Imaginary situation
If I hadn’t been sick, I would have gone to your party. that did not happen

PAST PERFECT WOULD HAVE + V3

CONDITIONAL AND
FACT
If Clause: Type 1

* It is very likely that the condition will be fulfilled in

the future.

* May, possible, probably …

If I find her book, I’ll give it to her next week.

* Fact : I may give her book next week.

If Clause: Type 2

* It is very unlikely that the condition will be fulfilled

now or in the future.

* Present tense ; in contradictory

If you came to the class now, you would meet her.

* Fact : You are sick now. You don’t come to the class
now, so you don’t meet her.
If Clause: Type 3

* It is impossible that the condition will be fulfilled

because it refers to the past.

* Past tense ; in contradictory

If I had studied well, I would have gotten good mark.

* Fact : I didn’t study well, so I didn’t get good mark.

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