Conditionals

• Conditional sentences aka conditional causes or if clauses - used to express that the action in the main clause ( without if ) can only take place if a certain condition in the clause ( with if ) is fulfilled
• Conditional sentence type 1 - possible and very likely that the condition will be fulfilled
• Conditional sentence type 1

  If + simple present, will - future
• Conditional sentence type 2 - possible but very unlikely that the condition will be fulfilled
• Conditional sentence type 2

  If + simple past , conditional 1 ( would+ infinitive
• Conditional sentence type 3

  Impossible that the condition will be fulfilled because it refers to the past
• Conditional sentence type 3 -

  If + past perfect, condition 2 ( would+ have + past participle)