Conditionals

Conditionals

1. Zero

   • Use
     • Describe rules and situations where one event always follows the other and something thats always is true
     • 100% sure
   • The Patten
     • If clause
       • If+present simple
     • Main clause
       • Present simple
   • Examples
     • If you freeze water, it turns to ice
     • If she eats hamburgers, she gets an allergy

2. First

   • Use
     • To talk about posibble future events wich depend on other future events
     • likely
   • The patten
     • If clause
       • If + present simple
     • Main clause
       • will/ won´t/may / can + infinitive with out to
     • Give advice or an order, and made a suggestion or a request
       • If clause
         • main clause
           • imperative
         • if + present simple
   • Examples
     • if the rain stops, the mach will begin
     • If you feel sick, you must stay in bed.

3. Second

   • uses
     • To talk about imagined, imposible events on the future
     • to talk about impossible or unreal present situations
   • examples
     • If we had a villa in the caribean, we would spend our holidays there
     • If the world champions lost the mach, everybody would be surprised
   • Patten
     • if clause
       • If + past
     • main clause
       • would/could/might + infinitive with out to

4. Third

   • Use
     • to talk about unreal situations in the past, to imagine things tht did no happend
   • Examples
     • If the weather had been better, we would have gone sailing
   • Patten
     • If clause
       • If + past perfect
     • main clause
       • would/ could/ might + have + third for of the verb