{"id":1340,"date":"2022-03-20T04:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T04:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage-wp.10minuteschool.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2022-03-22T01:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T01:22:27","slug":"conditionals-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/conditionals-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditionals\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Conditionals\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<table style=\"height: 108px;\" width=\"599\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1st Conditionals<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If\u00a0 + Present simple + Future simple<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2nd Conditionals<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If\u00a0 + Past simple + Would + Main verb\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>3rd Conditionals<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If\u00a0 + Past Perfect + would have + Verb Past Participle<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/skills\/courses\/29\/english-grammar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>1st Conditionals\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Structure:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If + Present simple + Future simple<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If I have enough time, I will come and see you<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of will in the main clause, we can use Modal verbs (can\/could\/should\/may\/might\/must), had better and imperatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you work hard, you may succeed in life\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to pass, you had better study hard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need anything, just ask me<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of present simple, we can also use can or should in the if-clause.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 If I can finish my work early, I will give him the news myself<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><i>2nd Conditionals\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Structure: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If+ past simple<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> + <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">would + main verb<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If clause<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Main clause<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If I knew her name, I would tell you<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of would in the main clause, we can use should\/could\/might.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I knew her name, I should tell you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had their address, I could write and ask them\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of Past simple,\u00a0 we can also use past continuous tense in the if-clause if it\u2019s necessary.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you were playing well, you would win the match<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To emphasize the improbability, we tend to use \u2018were\u2019 instead of \u2018was\u2019 after \u2018I\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If I were a king, I would help the poor<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><i>3rd Conditionals\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Structure:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If+ Past Perfect + Would have + Verb past participle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If I had heard of your success, I would have been glad<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of would have in the main clause, we can use could\/might+ have+ verb past participle or would+ verb simple present\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had heard of<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.10minuteschool.com\/start-entrepreneurship-in-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> your success<\/a>, I could have been glad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had worked hard in my youth, I would not suffer now<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of past perfect, we can also use Past perfect continuous tense in the if-clause; the rest will remain the same\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If she hadn\u2019t been standing here, I would have finished my meal<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditionals\u00a0 1st Conditionals If\u00a0 + Present simple + Future simple 2nd Conditionals If\u00a0 + Past simple + Would + Main verb\u00a0 3rd Conditionals If\u00a0 + Past Perfect + would have + Verb Past Participle 1st Conditionals\u00a0 Structure: If + Present<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"redmore\" href=\"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/conditionals-types\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3639,3647],"tags":[988,987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10minuteschool.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}