Conditionals

1. Conditionals

2. Zero conditional

IF-CLAUSE
If/when + Present
tense
MAIN CLAUSE
Present Simple
•When you do your homework, you get a good
mark.
•If you work out in the gym, you get strong.
•When it is not so cold, we go skiing.

3. 1st conditional

IF-CLAUSE
If + Present tense
MAIN CLAUSE
Future Simple
•If you have a birthday party, you will have
loads of presents.
•If you are working till six, we will have dinner
at about eight.
•If you have revised properly, you will not have
any problems in the test.

4. 2nd conditional

IF-CLAUSE
If + past
simple/continuous
MAIN CLAUSE
Would/could/might +
bare Infinitive
•If I had much free time, I would study
Japanese.
• If I wasn’t studying for exams today, we could
eat out.
•If I were you, I would avoid this person.

5. 3rd conditional

IF-CLAUSE
MAIN CLAUSE
If + past perfect/past
perfect continuous
Would/could/might +
bare perfect Infinitive
•If I had bought that dress, I would have been
the most beautiful there.
•If he hadn’t work so much, he couldn’t have
passed his exams.

6. Wishes

I wish/if only +
past simple/past
continuous
I wish I was not
working right now.
If only I were going to
the skating rink!
To say that we would like
something to be different
about a present situation.
I wish/ if only +
past perfect
I wish I had studied
harder!
If only I had not been
so foolish!
To express regret about
something in the past
I wish/ if only +
subject +would +
bare infinitive
I wish you would not so To express
rude!
A polite imperative
If only you would stop A desire for a situation to
smoking!
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