If - sentences

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IF-SENTENCES
Dedicated to my students

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Hello. Me and my student Kate
are going to show you, how to
learn topic like "if-sentences"
or conditionals. We have
chosen this topic, because for
most of the students this is
quite difficult to understand. So
we will try to explain it as
simply as we can.
Let’s start!

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If-sentences
There are three types of conditions. It is used in three types of sentences, called first,
second and third conditional sentences.
Function
Type I
The first conditional
sentences are used to
talk about possible
situations and their
probable results.
Type II
These sentences are
used to talk about an
unlikely condition and
its probable result. It
means unrealistic,
unreal, hypothetical
conditions related to
the present or the
future.
Type III
We use the third
conditional when we
imagine a different
past, where something
did or did not happen,
and we imagine a
different result.

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Conditional sentences – type I
Examples:
Form:
If
Present
Simple,
Future
Simple
“I can't think about
that right now. If I
do, I'll go crazy. I'll
think about that
tomorrow.”
―Margaret
Mitchell,
Gone with the Wind
In the first part of the sentence we
use Present Simple,after it, in the
second part we use Future Simple.
If you don’t decide,
someone else will
decide for you
Will you tell me the
truth, if I ask?

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No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on
believing, the dream that you wish will come true.
- Cinderella
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together,
keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”
- Winnie the pooh
Cartoons also
can help to
understand
this topic. Here
are some
examples of
the first type of
if-sentences.
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll
learn things you never knew, you never knew...
- Pocahontas
If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind
me, one day I'll know, how far I'll go.
- Moana

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Conditional sentences – type II
Past
Simple,
Would+V1
"It's supposed to
be hard. If it were
easy, everyone
would do it."
If he did not risk
everything,he
would never
become an actor.
—Jimmy Dugan, A
League of Their
Own
In the first part of the sentence we use
Past Simple, after it, in the second part we
use Would+V1
Would you move
to the USA, if you
could?

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Lord Cutler Beckett: You're
mad.
Jack Sparrow: Thank
goodness for that, 'cause if I
wasn't
this would probably never
work.
- Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World's End.

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Conditional sentences – type III
Past Perfect,
Would
have+V3
“If the cave-man had
known how to laugh,
History would have
been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The
Picture of Dorian Gray
In the first part of the sentence we use Past Perfect,
after it, in the second part we use Would have+V3
If he had not worked
so hard, he would
never have had the
opportunity to travel
Where would you
have lived, if you
had not moved to
France a year ago?

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Damon: There shouldn't have been a
plan. You shouldn't be here.
Elena: You think I like going behind
your back? I don't. But if I hadn't
asked Stefan to help, you would
have tried to be the hero and you
would have ruined everything.
Damon: Sorry for trying to keep you
alive.
-The Vampire Diaries

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How to Use “I wish” construction
We can use 'wish' to talk
about something that we
would like to be different
in the present. It's used
for things which are
impossible or very
unlikely.
Wish
Past
Simple
In the first part of the sentence we use “Wish”,
after it, in the second part we use Past Simple
“I wish I were a girl
again, half-savage
and hardy, and
free.”
― Emily Brontë,
Wuthering Heights
I wish I knew
what to do.
She wishes she
was beautiful.

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“You're always there,
you're everywhere
But right now I wish
you were here.”
-Avril Lavigne - Wish
You Were Here
“Sometimes I wish I was
brave
I wish I was stronger,
I wish I was young, wish I
was shy
I wish I was honest, wish
I was you, not I”
- Box Car Racer - I Feel So

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How to use “I wish I had”
When we want to talk
about situations in the
past that we are not happy
about or actions that we
regret, we use the verb
“wish” followed by
Past perfect.
Past
Perfect
In the first part of the sentence we use “Wish”, after
it, in the second part we use Past Perfect
“I wish I had died
before I ever loved
anyone but her.”
I wish I hadn't
said that.
― Ernest Hemingway
I wish that I had
studied harder at
school.

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Hank: Skyler, my– my head is
spinning. And yours... I–I can't
even imagine. So much makes
sense to me now. I just wish I
had seen it sooner. He's a
monster.
Jon Snow: No one's less happy
about this than I am.
Daenerys Targaryen: I know. I
respect what you did. I wish you
hadn't done it, but I respect it. This
place was the beginning of the end
for my family.
- Breaking Bad
-Game of Thrones
Leo: I wish you had remembered
what you'd done. It'd make this so
much easier. Your future self used
witchcraft for vengeance.
Phoebe: Why does everyone think I
killed someone? I wouldn't. I mean, I
couldn't. What did I do?
-The Charmed

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I wish (somebody) would do (something)
We say I wish… would …to
say that we want something to
happen. But we do not use I
wish… would …to say how we
would like things to be.
Wish
would
V1
“I wish they
would take me
as I am.”
― Vincent van
Gogh
In the first part of the sentence we use
“Wish”, after it, in the second part we use
would+V1
I wish you would
stop making so
much noise
I wish you would
go away.

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“I wish you would
Fall in love with me”
- Iggy Pop - Fall in Love with Me
“I wish you would dare to walk me home
I don't want to fight the world alone.”
- The Pretty Reckless- Heart
“I wish I would misplace it,
But then I take such good care of
it,
I wish it would disappear,
I say I wish,
But then I relish it being here.”
-Depeche Mode - A Photograph of
you