In the last lesson, we looked at an overview of standard conditional sentences in English. Native speakers, however, use a range of “mixed” conditionals in everyday speech. Real language exists in a ...

We use the zero conditional to talk about things which always happen if a particular action takes place. These can be scientific facts, or things we believe are always true. When you take exercise, ...

We use the third conditional to talk about imagined past events: things that might have happened in the past, but didn’t happen. She wouldn’t have become ill if she’d taken the medicine. It would have ...