Conditionals

Conditionals

1. Zero

   • if + Present Simple , . . . Present Simple
   • A fact or something which is always true
   • If the population grows, people go to colonies

2. First

   • If+ Present Simple , . . . will+ Inifinitive
   • Something possible and probable in the future
   • If you're lazy, you won't get anywhere

3. Second

   • If + Past Simple , . . . would + infinitive
   • An imaginary or improbable event in the present or future
   • I wouldn't be happy if I didn't have a laptop

4. Third

   • if + Past Perfect , . . . would + have + Past Participle
   • A hypothesis about something which didn't happen
   • I would have been a hippie if I'd lived in the 60s