Conditional Degrees

• Zero Conditional - express general truths — situations in which one thing

  always causes another results will ALWAYS happen
• First Conditional - Used to express situations in which the outcome is likely (but not guaranteed)
• First Conditional: 50% Possibility - 100% Certainty.
• Second Conditional - won't likely happen, unrealistic
• Second Conditional: 0-5% Possibility - 100% Certainty
• What is the formula of Second Conditional?

  If Clause - Simple Past Tense

  Main Clause- Would/Could + Infinitive
• Third Conditional - used to explain that present circumstance would be different if something different had happened in the past
• Third Conditional: 0% possibility - 100% certainty
• What is the formula of Third Conditional?

  If Clause - Past Perfect

  Main Clause - Would/Could + Have + Past Participle
• Two Uses of Second Conditional

  • Things that are probably not going to happen in the future
  • Something in the present which is impossible
• What is the formula for Zero Conditional?


  If Clause - Simple Present

  Main Clause - Simple Present
• Mixed Conditional - When we want to make a hypothesis abiout the past that has a consequence in the present
• What conditionals are under Mixed Conditional?

  Second and Third
• Mixed Conditional has no possibility and no certainty
• What is the formula of Mixed Conditional?

  If Clause - Past Perfect

  Main Clause - Would/Could + Infinitive
• What is the formula of First Conditional?

  If Clause - Simple Present

  Main Clause- Will/Can/Must + Infinitive