Speakers sometimes use the actual future condition to threaten others. Listen to actor Liam Neeson in the 2013 film Taken. In this scene of the film, Neeson`s character is on the phone and threatens the man who kidnapped his daughter. Poets and songwriters often use conditionals in their work. Listen to the current real state in this song by American songwriter Bob Dylan. Now let`s talk about the real future situation. If A occurs, B will occur. To make a future real condition, use wants in the result clause. For example, “If your plane is delayed, I`ll wait in the car.” Use the future real condition to talk about possible situations in the future. A conditional sentence indicates what would or could happen under certain conditions. Unreal conditions express hypothetical conditions that have no possibility of occurring in the past, present, or future, but describe what could have happened. Under these factual conditions, the broad spectrum of time and mode use is more useful than confusing for learners.

Provided you understand how times are used, you can say what you want; They are not limited by arbitrary rules on the “order of times”. The only “rule” is self-evident: when we talk about factual situations, we can use a tense form to distance ourselves in time, but not to distance ourselves from reality. REFERENCE – Three general conditions (incomplete list) This is only a brief introduction to the conditions. In a future episode of Everyday Grammar, we will talk about past and mixed conditions. Until then, we`ll leave you with country music stars Johnny Cash and June Carter. Usually, conditional sentences are called conditions. These sentences usually contain the conjunction IF. Sometimes they are called “if clauses”. Similarly, setting up the situation in #13b, below, in the past can lead to a sentence that has the same form as a hypothetical condition (in relation to future time) or a counterfactual condition (in relation to the present general): note that both the verbs see and say are in the present tense for the present real condition. The 3rd condition talks about how the past could have been different if other measures had been taken.

(But they weren`t! Again, it`s about imagining something that`s no longer possible.) Note: There is another structure of the unreal condition that does not use the conjunction if. Had replaces if and creates a conditional set. The verb after the “if” is (still) further into the past. In this case, it`s a perfect past. The independent clause is a conditional perfect using would or another modal verb. How to form questions in English: a simple explanation with many examples with question words and help verbs. The zero condition is present and expresses a fact. It tells something that always happens under certain conditions.

The 1. The condition indicates what can happen in the future when a certain condition is met: the real conditions express factual or habitual conditions that have the possibility of occurring in the future or in the present in general. In many of these examples, the [coherent] main clause implies a reality, but it can also carry other connotations often proposed by a modal: the current real condition is the most basic type of condition. Basically, if A occurs, B occurs. When we talk about conditions, we may think that it is something possible or impossible. POSSIBLE (Type 1) Present – will be in the sentence if you have a present and in the main sentence you have a future: If it rains, I will take my umbrella If you want, I will help you In both examples, the main sentence expresses a possibility and what will happen in the future if it happens FANTASY (Type 2) Past – would be in the clause if you have a simple past and in the clause You have a condition. In this case, you may be talking about the present or the future, but you still consider the situation to be unreal. Future idea: 1- If you marry me, I will make you happy (=do you want?) 2- If you married me, I would make you happy (= but you won`t) Current idea: 3- If you lived in Nigeria, you would hate the sun (=but you don`t want to) 4- If I knew, I would tell you (=but I don`t) Examples 3 and 4 are clearly not factual: I don`t know, so I can`t tell you. Example 2 is not impossible; Eventually, she might marry me, but the most important thing is that I present my message as if I thought it was unreal, impossible (I think or pretend I don`t think you`re going to marry me), but in Example 1, I present the same message as a fact, as a real possibility.

TRUTHS (type 0) present – present In English, we can express a truth in the form of a condition. In this case, it is not a hypothesis, but a fact, and we use a present in both sentences: when you heat ice, it melts When you look at it, it blushes If you come from France, then you can speak French In these cases, we do not think about the future, but about the present. In the 1st example we are talking about a property of ice (a present or timeless property) and in the 2nd example we are talking about a property of it, not what will happen in the future, but what happens each time (usual present). The 3rd example is even more obvious. Compare: 1- When you heat ice cream, it melts 2- If you do not eat your ice cream quickly, it will melt In the first example, we think of a current property of ice, no one thinks about heating it. In the 2nd example, we talk about the future, what will happen if you don`t eat it soon. Under type 0 conditions, “if” can be replaced with “when” or “when”r (=each time) When you drop a stone, it falls = when/each time you drop a stone, it falls EXCEPT = if. not The clause if usually goes to the beginning, the clause except usually goes to the end Do not touch it unless you buy it = If you do not buy it, do not touch it PAST SITUATION (type 3) perfet past – would have here we are talking about an impossible situation because the condition has occurred in the past, and it never happened (if it happened, then we`re not talking about conditions, but facts) If you had married me, we would have been happy (but you didn`t) The 2nd condition imagines what would happen if something were true – but it`s not. This is often referred to as the “current unreal condition.” The verb after the “if” is in the simple past tense, although it speaks of the present. That tells listeners that the proposal is imaginary, isn`t it.

conditionally – n. a word, clause or sentence that shows that something is true or only happens when something else is true or happens In this week`s episode of Everyday Grammar, we will talk about the conditions. We use conditions to show that something is true only when something else is true. Conditionalities offer endless possibilities for creative and imaginative expression. The next condition we will talk about is the current unreal condition. Use the current unreal condition to talk about what you would do in an unreal or imaginary situation. If A were to occur, B would occur. For example, “If I were you, I would take the job.” The key word is dignity; this makes the condition unreal.

Can only be used in the result clause of the sentence. Here is an example of the American singer Johnny Cash. In examples #12, When you heat ice cream, it melts, a general truth, and #13 When Andrea cooks what I wash, a usual act, the action/condition of the IF clause reported by the speaker was known before the report. In #14, If it is already ten o`clock, then I am too late, the situation is different: the situation was unknown to the speaker until a few moments before the statement. In fact, such statements are often preceded by another speaker who provides the knowledge; in number 14, it would be the other speaker who would say, “It`s ten o`clock.” In the following condition, if transmits a meaning similar to that given, to accept that.. .