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CONDITIONAL

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Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen. In English, most sentences using the conditional contain the word if. Many conditional forms in English are used in sentences that include verbs in one of the past tenses. This usage is referred to as "the unreal past" because we use a past tense but we are not actually referring to something that happened in the past. There are five main ways of constructing conditional sentences in English. In all cases, these sentences are made up of an if clause and a main clause. In many negative conditional sentences, there is an equivalent sentence construction using "unless" instead of "if".

Conditional sentence type

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• Zero

Usage^{General truths}

•Type 1

UsageA possible condition and its probable result

•Type 2

Usage^{A hypothetical condition and its probable result}

•Type 3

UsageAn unreal past condition and its probable result in the past

•Mixed type

Usage^{An unreal past condition and its probable result in the present}

how use CONDITIONAL

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THE ZERO CONDITIONAL

If clause

If + simple present

Main clause

simple present

how to use the zero conditional

TYPE 1 CONDITIONAL

If clause

If + simple present

Main clause

simple future

how to use the type 1 conditional

TYPE 2 CONDITIONAL

If clause

If + simple past

Main clause

present conditional or present continuous conditional

how to use the type 2 conditional

TYPE 3 CONDITIONAL

If clause

If + past perfect

Main clause

perfect conditional or perfect continuous conditional

how to use the type 3 conditional

MIXED TYPE CONDITIONAL

If clause

If + past perfect or simple past

Main clause

present conditional or perfect conditional

how to use the mixed conditional