How to express "factual situations"

How to express "factual situations"

1. Future situations

   • The future real conditional describes what the speaker will do in a specific situation in the future
   • Examples
     • If I go to the party, I´ll ask Sarah to come with me
     • If you don´t hurry, you´ll miss the bus
     • What will you do if there is a problem?

2. Zero conditional

   • Structure
     • If+Simple Present+Simple Present
   • Keywords
     • When
     • Must
     • Should
     • If
     • Unless
   • Examples
     • If I drink, I never die
     • What happens if/when you heat water to 100 degrees?
     • If you don´t heat water to 100 degress, it doesn´t boil

3. Second Conditional

   • Structure
     • If+Simple Past+Would+Complement
   • Keywords
     • If
     • If not
     • Unless
     • Were
     • Would

4. First Conditional

   • Structure
     • If+Simple Present+Will+Verb+Complement
   • Keywords
     • If
     • If not
     • Unless
     • Will
     • Won´t
   • Examples
     • If I miss the train today, I´ll drive to work
     • If you see Ken later today, will you tell him to call me?
     • If you can´t get me a ticket, I won´t go to the concert with you

5. Hypotetical Situations

   • When we talk about things that we imagine
   • examples
     • I didn´t know you had nothing to do yesterday. I would have called you
     • What if you lost your job?
     • It´s a good thing they repaires the traffic lights. There might have been an accident

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