Conditional Tenses

• Conditional Sentences - Statements discussing known factors or hypothetical situations and their consequences.
• A complete conditional sentence contains a conditional clause (if-clause) and the consequence (result clause)
• Conditional sentences are made up of a dependent and an independent clause. It shows a possible cause and effect and states a condition that may occur or that has occurred. It contains a requirement
• Clause - A group of words that contains a subject and a predicate
• Six Tenses of Condition (PPPPFF):

  • Present Real
  • Present Unreal
  • Past Real
  • Past Unreal
  • Future Real
  • Future Unreal
• What is the formula of Present Real Conditional?

  IC - SImple Present Tense

  RC - Simple Present Tense
• What is the formula of Present Unreal Conditional?

  IC - Simple Past Tense

  RC - Would/Could/Might + Base Form of Verb
• Were - Used for Present Unreal Conditional (I, you, they, we, she, he)
• What is the formula of Past Real Conditional?

  IC - Simple Past Tense

  RC - Simple Past Tense
• What is the formula of Past Unreal Conditional?

  IC - Past Perfect Tense

  RC - Would/Could/Might + Have + Past Participle
• What is the formula of Future Real Conditional?

  IC - Simple Present Tense

  RC - Simple Future Tense
• What is the formula of Future Unreal Conditional?

  IC - Simple Past Tense

  RC - Would/Could/Might + Present Tense