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Sentences
by JFBS
Conditional Types
First Type: Possible & Probable conditions
Second Type: Possible & Improbable conditions
Third Type: Impossible conditions
Other Conditional sentences
Wish / If only
MAIN CLAUSE
If you come
Simple Future
Imperative
Can
I will be happy
Study!
If we buy a ticket
Simple Present
________________ (take) it
MAIN CLAUSE
________(watch out) !
MAIN CLAUSE
Simple Past
If she studied
If he ran
If I went to China
If I were _____________
_________________
MAIN CLAUSE
You________have) an accident
We ________.(have dinner)
We ________ (not finish) our
lesson
I ________ (give) you some
money
MAIN CLAUSE
Past Perfect
If it hadn't rained
I ___________(arrive) earlier
I 'd have seen him
MAIN CLAUSE
We________(have dinner)
We ________ (not finish) our
lesson
I ________ (give) you some
money
Wish and if only can be used with would and past tenses. These structures express
regrets, and wishes for unlikely or impossible things.
If only is more emphatic. (Traduccin: jala, Deseara)
Sample rephrasing
First Conditional:
- Be careful someones going to see you!
- If you are careful, nobody will see you!
- If + Subject + present simple, subject + future will (aff or neg)
Second Conditional:
-Kathy wants to go to the movies but doesn't have any money
-If Kathy had some money, she would go to the movies.
-If + Subject + past simple (neg or aff), subject + would /could/might + infinitive + complements
Third Conditional:
-Tom was not going to come to dinner the next day because you insulted him.
-If you hadnt insulted him, Tom would have come to dinner.
- If + Subject + past perfect (neg or aff), subject + would/ could/might + have + pp + C
Wish / If only
Im sorry, but I cant help you now.
I wish I could help you.
I would have gone to the concert, but I didnt have a ticket.
I wish I had had a ticket. / I had bought a ticket
Other examples
- His book will be published provided he takes his manuscript to the editor.
Unless he takes his manuscript to the editor, his book wont be published.
Unles + present simple, future simple (aff or neg)
-I didn't have an umbrella with me and so I got wet.
I wouldn't have got wet, if I had had an umbrella with me.
-We don't go to school when it rains
If it rains, we dont go to school.
-I didn't move the table because Jack didn't help me.
If Jack had helped me, I would have moved the table.
- You drink too much coffee, that's why you don't sleep well.
If you didnt drink too much coffee, you would sleep well.
-You never talk to me, so you don't know anything about me.
If you talked to me, you would know something about me.
THE END
By JFBS