Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
- What's a conditional sentence?
- It's a compound sentence which is used to express that the action in the main clause (without if) can only
happen if a certain condition (in the clause with if) is fulfilled.
- If I find a decent job, I will buy a new car
- Types
- 0 Conditionals (General truths)
- Imperative Conditionals
- First Conditional (probable)
- Second Conditional (Unlikely)
- Third Conditional (Impossible)
- Main Conjunctions
- IF
- UNLESS
- 0 CONDITIONALS (General truths)
- If you mix yellow and red, you get orange
- OTHER CONJUNCTIONS
- AS LONG AS, OTHERWISE, IN CASE, OR ELSE, PROVIDED THAT
- IMPERATIVE CONDITIONALS
- If you drink, don't drive.
- FIRST CONDITIONALS (Probable)
- If you don't study hard, you will fail .
- Unless you study hard, you will fail.
- SECOND CONDITIONALS (Unlikely)
- If I were a rich man, I would stop working
- If I had lots of money, I wouldn't work
- THIRD CONDITIONALS (Impossible)
- If it hadn't rained so much, I would've gone to the park with mom