Conditionals

The conditionals

Zero conditional

First conditional

Third conditional

Talk about universal truths.

Give instructions or orders

If + subject + present simple, Subjet+present simple

If you don’t wash your socks, they smell bad.

If you don't put suncream, you burn yourself.

probable situations, real in the future.

If + subject + present simple,

subject+ will/won't + infinitive

If you don’t clean the house, you‘ll (will) sleep on the sofa.

If I sleep on the sofa, I won’t (will not) sleep well.

Talk about the future, but in this case the condition is hypothetical, it is very unlikely to occur.

Second conditional

Express impossibility (to talk about situations in the present that cannot occur because they are impossible).

If + subject+ past simple,

subject+would/wouldn't + infinitive

If I won the lottery, I would move to Japan.

If he were his father, I wouldn’t allow such behaviour.

An imaginary situation in the past.

Repentance.

if + subject + past perfect,

subject+would/wouldn't have+ past participle

If you hadn’t been looking at your phone, you wouldn’t have burnt my toast.

If I hadn’t left you in charge of breakfast, you wouldn’t have burnt my toast

Conditionals

Yoselin Retama Cornejo

Ingles C2 Group 06