CONDITIONAL "IF"

Conditionals

Types of Conditionals

When we use the conditonals

How we make sentences in each type

Let's study

Zero Conditional

If you stay in the rain, you get wet.

First Conditional

If I have enough money, I'll go to a safari
trip next summer.

Second Conditional

If I won the lottery, I would travel the
world.

Third Conditional

If we'd bought a guidebook, we would
have known which places to visit.

Zero Conditional

If you stay in the rain, you get wet.

Present Simple

Present Simple

First Conditional

If I have enough money, I'll go to a safari trip next summer.

Present Simple

Future Simple

Second Conditional

If I won the lottery, I would travel the world.

Past Simple

would/could

Third Conditional

If we'd bought a guidebook, we would have known which places to visit.

Past Perfect

would/could have + past particile

Third
Conditional

Second
Conditional

First
Conditional

Zero
Conditional

scientific facts, general truths, laws
of nature

real situations likely to happen in
the present or future

advice, unreal or imaginary
situation unlikely to happen in the
present or future

imaginary situation in the past,
regrets, unfulfilled plans, wishes
impossible to fulfill or criticism

What can we use instead of "if"?

when

unless = if not

provided/

providing that

as long as

on condition

that

even if

suppose/
supposing

since

as

More info

If-clause shows the condition and main clause shows the
result.

The if-clause can precede or follow the main clause. When
it's at the beginning of the sentence, we put a comma after
the if-clause. When the main clause is first, no comma is
used.

Thank
you!