Conditionals

1) If you hurry, you will catch the bus.

2) If you hurried, you would catch the bus.

3) If you had hurried, you would have caught the bus.


1) Present situation and possible (first conditional)
(It's now 7.00. The bus leaves at 7.10 and it takes you about 8 minutes to get to the bus stop.)

2) Present situation and hypothesis (second conditinal)
(It's now 7.00. The bus leaves at 7.10, but you don't feel in the mood of hurrying. You don't feel like running; you feel so sleepy! And your parents tell you to hurry)

3) Past situation. (third conditional).Yesterday you didn't catch the bus and today at the bus stop you realise that you could have caught it.

If ......

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

 # Present situation  + possible #

If I have enough pocket money, I will buy a packet of «jumpers».
  (present simple)                            (future will)
 
I will buy a packet of «jumpers» if  I have enough pocket money.
   (future will)                                      (present simple)


# Present situation + hypothesis  #

If I had enough pocket money, I would buy a packet of «jumpers».
  (past simple)                            (conditional  would)
 
I would buy a packet of «jumpers» if  I had enough pocket money.
   (conditional would)                             (past simple)
 
[If I had enough money, but I haven't]


 
# Past situation + impossible  #

If I had had enough pocket money, I would have bought a packet of «jumpers».
  (past perfect)                                         (conditional perfect)
  
I would have bought a packet of «jumpers» if I had had enough pocket money.
     (conditional perfect)                                         (past perfect)

Some revision through a song.

Conditional
If she changes her mind, this is the first place she will go.
Predictions
 Maybe he'll get famous as the man who can't be moved.
Lyrics | The Script lyrics - The Man Who Can't Be Moved lyrics

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If I were.... ( Second conditionals)

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