Nama : Christian Adi
Nugraha
NPM : 10209968
Kelas : 4EA15
Mata Kuliah : Bahasa Inggris
Bisnis 2 #
First Conditional:
Real Possibility
We are
talking about the future. We are thinking about a particular condition or
situation in the future, and the result of this condition. There is a real
possibility that this condition will happen. For example, it is morning. You
are at home. You plan to play tennis this afternoon. But there are some clouds
in the sky. Imagine that it rains. What will you do?
IF + Present
Simple + WILL + base verb
Example :
If it
rains, I will at home
Notice
that we are thinking about a future condition. It is not raining yet. But the
sky is cloudy and you think that it could rain. We use the present simple tense
to talk about the possible future condition. We use WILL + base verb to talk
about the possible future result. The important thing about the first
conditional is that there is a real possibility that the condition will
happen. Here are some more examples (do you remember the two basic
structures: [IF condition result] and [result IF condition]?):
Example :
If I see
Mary, I will tell her
It Tarra
is free tomorrow, he will invite her
If they
do not pass their exam, their teacher will be sad
*Sometimes,
we use shall, can, or may instead of will, for
example: If you are good today, you can watch TV tonight.
Second Conditional: unreal
possibility or dream
The second
conditional is like the first conditional. We are still thinking about the
future. We are thinking about a particular condition in the future, and the
result of this condition. But there is not a real possibility that this
condition will happen. For example, you do not have a lottery ticket. Is
it possible to win? No! No lottery ticket, no win! But maybe you will buy a
lottery ticket in the future. So you can think about winning in the future,
like a dream. It's not very real, but it's still possible.
IF + Past Simple + WOULD +
base verb
Example :
If I won the lottery, I
would buy a car
Notice
that we are thinking about a future condition. We use the past simple tense to
talk about the future condition. We use WOULD + base verb to talk about the
future result. The important thing about the second conditional is that there
is an unreal possibility that the condition will happen.
Here are some more examples:
If I married Marry, I would
be happy
If Ram became rich, she
would marry him
*Sometimes,
we use should, could or might instead of would, for
example: If I won a million dollars, I could stop working.
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.
IF + Past Perfect + WOULD HAVE + Past Participle
Example :
If I won the lottery, I would have buy 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.
Sometimes, we use should have, could
have, might have instead of would have, for example: If you
had bought a lottery ticket, you might have won.
Look at some more examples in the
tables below:
If
I had seen Marry, I would have told her
If
Tara have been free yesterday, I woulh have invited her
If they had not been passed their exam,
their teacher would have been sad
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