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    GRAMMAR 7 CONDITIONALS

    If I were taller, I'd join the basketball team.


    If I were you, I'd leave now. (I and you are stressed in speech)

    • Were to
    Were to is another way of expressing a second conditional sentence.
    If they were to offer me the job, I'd turn it down.

    Unreal/imaginary • W i t h if
    past situations: third A third conditional describes an unreal or imaginary situation in the past. A
    conditional past perfect tense is used after if. Would + have + past participle is used in the
    result clause.
    If John had studied more, he would have got better marks.
    This means that John didn't study more. A past situation, different to the
    one that really happened, is imagined.
    The modal verbs might and could are common in this kind of sentence.
    If you had tried harder, you might have succeeded.

    • Mixed conditions
    For past events which have a result continuing in the present, it is possible
    to use the form of a third conditional in the if-clause, and the form of a
    second conditional in the result clause.
    If you had saved some money, you wouldn't be so hard up.

    Other if sentences If can mean when in the sense of whenever.


    If/When/Whenever it rains, we play football indoors instead.
    In this type of sentence we use the present simple in both the if-clause and the
    result clause.
    If can also mean if it is true that.
    If (it is true that) you have a job like that, you are very lucky.
    If (it is true that) nothing happened, you were lucky.
    If+ past simple can be used for past events with a real possibility, or that we
    know are true. This type of sentence does not have any special grammar rules.
    If you missed the TV programme last night, you can borrow my recording.
    If the police arrested him, they must suspect him.

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