Conditional tenses

 
 

 


 

 
                 
IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!


 

1. Form

typeif-clausemain clause
ISimple Presentwill-future or (Modal + infinitive)
IISimple Pastwould + infinitive *
IIIPast Perfectwould + have + past participle *

2. Examples (if-clause at the beginning)

typeif clausemain clause
IIf I study, I will pass the exam.
IIIf I studied,I would pass the exam.
IIIIf I had studied, I would have passed the exam.

3. Examples (if-clause at the end)

typemain clauseif-clause
II will pass the examif I study.
III would pass the examif I studied.
IIII would have passed the examif I had studied.

4. Examples (affirmative and negative sentences)

type Examples
  long formsshort/contracted forms
I+If I study, I will pass the exam.If I study, I'll pass the exam.
-If I study, I will not fail the exam.
If I do not study, I will fail the exam.
If I study, I won't fail the exam.
If I don't study, I'll fail the exam.
II+If I studied, I would pass the exam.If I studied, I'd pass the exam.
-If I studied, I would not fail the exam.
If I did not study, I would fail the exam.
If I studied, I wouldn't fail the exam.
If I didn't study, I'd fail the exam.
III+If I had studied, I would have passed the exam.If I'd studied, I'd have passed the exam.
-If I had studied, I would not have failed the exam.
If I had not studied, I would have failed the exam.
If I'd studied, I wouldn't have failed the exam.
If I hadn't studied, I'd have failed the exam.
* We can substitute could or might for would (should, may or must are sometimes possible, too).
  • I would pass the exam.
  • I could pass the exam.
  • I might pass the exam.
  • I may pass the exam.
  • I should pass the exam.
  • I must pass the exam.
Thanks to Kai.



4º ESO
If you practise, you will succeed.

Unless you practise more, you won´t succeed.



1º BACHILLERATO
If I were you, I´d practise.

If the students practised, they´d succeed.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_2_statements.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_2_negation.htm

If you´d practice you, you´d have succeeded.

If students´d been hardworking and responsible, they´d not have failed.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_3_mix.htm

 http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_3_mix2.htm


Los alumnos que practiquen tendrán más soltura para hacer los ejercicios en clase y en los exámenes.
Marca tu propio  ritmo  y deja de ser MEDIOCRE.
 

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