1. CONDITIONALS

2. TYPES ZERO CONDITIONAL 1ST CONDITIONAL 2ND CONDITIONAL 3RD CONDITIONAL
MIXED CONDITIONAL

3. ZERO CONDITIONAL IF PRESENT / PRESENT / IMPERATIVE
HABITS OR GENERAL TRUTH
If you heat ice, it melts.
If I get home late, my mother gets angry.
When you are in Britain, you have to drive on the left.

4. ZERO CONDITIONAL IF PRESENT, PRESENT / IMPERATIVE
To give instructions or orders ( commands)
If you get to the station before me, wait for me.
If anyone rings, take the message.

5. 1ST CONDITIONAL IF PRESENT , WILL / CAN / SHOULD MAY / MIGHT
REAL CONDITIONAL; IT’S LIKELY TO HAPPEN.
Possible future events and their consequences.
If I go, I’ll call you.
If the crisis continues, more people will lose their jobs.

6. 1ST CONDITIONAL
We can use could, may or might when we are less certain:
If I go, I may call you.
If we don’t take a map, we might get lost.
To make promises or warnings
Your hair will shine if you use this shampoo.
Your leg will hurt if you don’t rest.

7. OTHER CONJUNCTIONS UNLESS ( IF NOT) ( “a menos que”)
Unless it rains, I will go to the concert.
If it doesn’t rain, I will go to the concert.
AS SOON AS the alarm clock starts to ring, she wakes up.
WHEN he watches horror films, he gets scared.

8. 2ND CONDITIONAL IF PAST SIMPLE , WOULD
HYPOTHETICAL , IMAGINARY OR UNLIKELY SITUATIONS.
If I had money , I would buy a car.
If you were a millionaire, where would you go?
TO GIVE ADVICE
If I were you, I wouldn’t go =
You shouldn’t go

9. 1st vs 2nd CONDITIONAL
IF PRESENT , WILL 1ST IF PAST SIMPLE , WOULD 2ND LIKELY OR POSSIBLE 1ST UNLIKELY SITUATIONS 2ND If it rains, I won’t go. ( cloudy day) If it rained, I wouldn’t go. ( sunny day)

10. 3RD CONDITIONAL
IF PAST PERFECT, WOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE MIGHT HAVE DONE PAST/ REGRET A hypothetical situation in the past, imaginary situations. If you had been at the party , you would have met him. I wouldn’t have volunteered to work outdoors if I’d known about the rain.

11. Punctuation
If you had been at the party , you would have met him. You would have met him if you had been at the party. If I carry on spending, I’ll never be able to afford lessons. I’ll never be able to afford lessons If I carry on spending.

12. MIXED CONDITIONAL IF PAST PERFECT; WOULD PRESENT RESULT
If I hadn’t slept bad, I wouldn’t feel sleepy .
If I had spent more money, you would have a better present.

13. Other conjuctions As long as “but only if”
Providing that “but only if”
Provided that “but only if”
Even if “aún cuando”

14. Contracted form ’d Would / had = ’d
She’d have bought = would have bought
I’d been = had been