lunes, 17 de junio de 2013
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Last week you bought a lottery ticket. But you did not win. :-(
Notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition. You did not win the lottery. So the condition was not true, and that particular condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect tense to talk about the impossible past condition. We use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about the third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.
Third Conditional: no possibility
The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why there is no possibility for this condition. The third conditional is also like a dream, but with no possibility of the dream coming true.Last week you bought a lottery ticket. But you did not win. :-(
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| Past Perfect | WOULD HAVE + Past Participle | |
| If | I had won the lottery | I would have bought a car. |
Notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition. You did not win the lottery. So the condition was not true, and that particular condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect tense to talk about the impossible past condition. We use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about the third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.
| IF | condition | result |
| past perfect | WOULD HAVE + past participle | |
| If | I had seen Mary | I would have told her. |
| If | Tara had been free yesterday | I would have invited her. |
| If | they had not passed their exam | their teacher would have been sad. |
| If | it had rained yesterday | would you have stayed at home? |
| If | it had rained yesterday | what would you have done? |
| result | IF | condition |
| WOULD HAVE + past participle | past perfect | |
| I would have told Mary | if | I had seen her. |
| I would have invited Tara | if | she had been free yesterday. |
| Their teacher would have been sad | if | they had not passed their exam. |
| Would you have stayed at home | if | it had rained yesterday? |
| What would you have done | if | it had rained yesterday? |
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lunes, 3 de junio de 2013
SECOND CONDITIONALS
| We use the second conditional to talk about unreal or hypothetical situations that are unlikely to happen.
The subordinate clause (If-clause) has the verb in the past simple. The main clause has the verb in the conditional form - would + infinitive
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"If it stopped raining, I would go for a walk"
"If we won the lottery, we would buy a new car"
"If you didn't drink so much coffee, you would sleep better."
"If I were you, I'd buy that car"
a) If William (not/watch) so many horror films, he (not/be) scared of the dark.
b) If William (be) braver, he (not/feel) frightened of thunder and lightning.
c) If William (not/spend) so much time playing video games, he (get) better grades at school.
d) If William (ate) healthier food, he (not/be) ill so often.
e) If he (not/be) ill so often, he (not/miss) so many classes.
f) If his parents (not/allow) him to drink so much coke, he (sleep) much better.
g) If William (sleep) better at night, he (start) his day with more energy.
h) If he (start) his day with more energy, he (do) many more things.
i) If William (practice) a sport, he (keep) fit and healthy.
j) If he (keep) fit and healthy, he (feel) more confident.
k) If he (feel) more confident, his self-esteem (increase).
l) If his self-esteem (increase), he (not/have) so many problems to sleep at night.
Second conditional
The Second Conditional is used to talk about 'impossible' situations.
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