by joana
domingo, 21 de novembro de 2010
Zero Conditional
- Used for habitual actions or accepted facts;
- It is created by if/when + two clauses with the same tense in each clause
First Conditional
- If + present tense, then future tense
- Examples: I will eat popcorn if I go to the cinema.
If you fall, I won’t be able to catch you!
If it rains, we’re going to get wet.
Second Conditional
- If + past tense, then present conditional
- Examples: If I spoke french, I would go to Paris.
I wouldn’t touch that if I were you.
If you fell, you would hurt yourself.
- If + past perfect, then past conditional
- Examples: If you had not eaten all those sweets, you wouldn’t have got tummy ache.
If John had studied more, he would have got better marks.
If you had saved some money, you wouldn’t be so hard up.
