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Conditionals
Mr. Houmad
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