Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CONDITIONAL FORMS
- ZERO
- Form
- If+present simple+complement+present simple+complement
- Use
- General facts
- Sentences
- Plants die if they don’t get enough water.
- If you press that button, the light comes on.
- If I run, I get tired.
- If you heat water to 100 degrees, it boils.
- FIRST
- Form
- If + Present simple + Simple future
- Use
- Refers to a possible condition
and its probable outcome
- Sentences
- If I do not finish my homework, I will not party
- If I have time, visit my grandmother
- If you feel sick, you go to the doctor
- If I exercise, will lose weight
- If we don't hurry, we'll miss our bus.
- THIRD
- Form
- If + Past perfect + Perfect conditional / Perfect continuous conditional
- Use
- It is based on facts that are opposite to what is being expressed
- Sentences
- If she had been there, I would have seen her.
- If we had had more time, we would have visited Pompeii.
- If she had been friendlier, she wouldn’t have offended anyone.
- If they hadn’t told me about the exhibition, I never would have known.
- SECOND
- Form
- If + Present simple + Present conditional or Present perfecct conditional
- Use
- A time that can be now or at any time and to a situation that is not real
- Sentences
- If I were taller, he would like me
- If she lost weight, the dress would fit
- If I had children, I would teach them to draw
- If it wasn’t raining we could go for a run.