if clauses! conditionals! In this video lesson we'll learn all about the
conditionals.. The 4 conditionals you can use when speaking in English :)
Friends before we begin this video lesson let's try practicing using the conditionals
tell me in the comments below this video what would you do if you've won 1
million dollars on the lottery.. Remember to add in as much detail as you can and
use the conditionals you've learn throughout this lesson :) Conditionals in
the English language are also called if clauses. There are four types of
conditionals in the English language and they are used to express some form of
condition... So two events in the sentence are somehow connected.... so they are somehow
tied... so there is some condition in the first action that affects the second
action! Okay sounds simple, sounds easy, but let's have a look at two examples so
that you can better understand these conditions these actions which affect
the other action! Have a look at these two sentences.... if you heat water to a
hundred degrees it boils... if babies are hungry they cry... in these two sentences
the zero conditional is being used. We form the zero conditional by having
the if clause plus the present simple and the present simple notice that only
one tense is being used.... that being the present simple. The zero conditional is
used when something will always happen! We use it for general facts when
something is unquestionable and it is always true... For example if you touch
fire you'll get burnt... every time you touch fire you will get burnt or I'm
allergic to gluten so if I eat gluten I will get sick... These are all facts if I
eat gluten I'll get sick or if I touch fire I'll get burned.. The zero conditional
the word if can also be changed with the word when without the meaning being
changed! For example when I touch fire I get burned or when I eat gluten
I get sick!... Let's move on to these two sentences
if it rains tomorrow we'll go to the cinema... If I study now I'll go to the party
in the evening... Here we can see the first conditional being used
Unlike the zero conditional, we form the first conditional with two tenses... we use
the present simple and the will future... so the form is always the same that
being if plus present simple and will plus infinitive... we use the first
conditional for things that might happen in the future... its not a hundred percent that
they will happen there's a 50/50 chance or maybe 60/40 70/30 30/70 there's a
chance but it's not certain that it will happen! So if you're in a situation when
you don't know if something will happen in the future... you can't be a hundred
percent certain.... use the first conditional! By using the first
conditional you are expressing a possible action or a possible result
Let's have a look at these two sentences... if the train is late she will be late or...
she'll miss the bus if she doesn't leave so in this example we need to pay
attention to the form... the present simple always follows if ...the inverted structure
is possible but you need to pay attention to mix the tenses up... now you
may be wondering what's the difference between the zero and the first
conditional.... the difference is is that the first conditional describes a
particular situation... whereas the zero conditional describes what happens in
general ....let's have a look at this sentence here... if we had a lot of money I
would travel around the world... Here we can see the second conditional being used...
the second conditional uses the past simple after if.. then would and the infinitive
remember that question I asked you at the beginning of the video lesson you
can use a second conditional to answer this question... for example if I won the
lottery I would buy a big house.... so as you probably can see, we use the second
conditional to talk about events that are not likely... I can hope to win the
lottery but... I don't think I will! Use the second conditional to talk about hopes,
dreams, imagination... things that are highly unlikely to happen... for example if I had
Brad Pits number I'd call him.... here we can see it's probably unlikely
that I'd get Brad Pitt's number... but this is a perfect hypothetical condition where
you can use the second conditional! But we can also use the second condition to
talk about something in the present that's impossible... because it's not true!
For example: if I'd gone to bed early I wouldn't have slept through my alarm
Have a look at these two examples... if she had studied she would have passed the
exam... She wouldn't have been tired if she had gone to bed earlier... as we can see
from these two sentences, we form the third conditional by using the past perfect,
and then would have and the past participle.... in the second part of the
sentence... Friends use the third conditional when you're talking about the past... Use it to talk
about a situation in the past that didn't happen.... but a possible result that
could have happened or could have occurred... and this result never happened
it's unrealistic this is why you would be using the third conditional! Use this
conditional to express past conditions and its results in the past ... Friends
there you have it the basics you need to know to be able to speak in English
using those if clauses and conditionals if you're still struggling to use
conditionals make sure to get my grammar training.... you can do that by clicking the
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