CONDITIONAL SENTENCES.


TYPE 1 PROBABLE CONDITION.


Basic form: tenses....IF -CLAUSES: present

•  Possible variations of the basic form.

a. Variations of the main clause:

1.MAY/MIGHT (possibility)

If the fog gets thicker the plane may/mught be diverted.

Si tus documentos están en orden tu puedes irte.

2.MAY(permission) or CAN ( permission or ability)

If you whant to lose weight you must/ should eat less bread.

4.IMPERATIVE FORM.

If you want to lose weight, eat less bread.

Si quieres perder peso, come menos.

5.PRESENTE TENSE: to express automatic or habitual resuls.

(Type 0. so called in some text books)

If you heat ice, it turns to water.

 Los dos van en presente.

TYPE UNLIKELI CONDITION

Basic form: teses... IF-CLAUSES: past tense

MAIN CLAUSE: WOULD+ Verb inf.

time reference:future(Hypotetical condition)

e.g If had a map / would lend it to you.

• Possible varations of the basic form:

a.Variations pf the main clause:

1.MIGHT/COULD + INF.

If you tries again you might / could succeed.

Si tu lo intentaras otra vez tu podrias tener exito.

TYPE 3 IMPOSSIBLE.

Basic form: tenses ... IF-CLAUSES: past prfect tenses 

MAIN CLASE: WOULD HAVE+ Verb pp.

TIME REFERENCE: PAST( Hypothetical Codition in the past)

e.g If  I had known that you were coming I would have met you at the airport.

• Possible variations of the basic form:

a. Variations pf the main clases:

1.MIGNT/COULD.

If we had found him earlier we could have saved his life.

2.PEREFECT CONDITIONAL CONTINUOS FORM.

At thw time of the accident I was sitting in the back of the car, because Tom's little boy was sitting beside him in front.

A COMBINATION OF TYPES 2 AND 3 POSSIBLE.

The plane I intented to catch crashed and everyone was killed.

HAD CON BE PLACED FIRST OF OMITTED (very formal)

Had you obeyed obeyed orders this disaster woul not have happened.