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    "The Unreal Past": Conditional Sentence Type Usage If Clause Verb Tense Main Clause Verb Tense

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    The document discusses conditional sentences in English. There are five main types of conditional sentences that use different verb tenses depending on whether the condition is possible, hypothetical, or unreal. The conditional sentences consist of an if-clause and main clause, with some types using past tense verbs to talk about unreal past conditions and their results.

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    The document discusses conditional sentences in English. There are five main types of conditional sentences that use different verb tenses depending on whether the condition is possible, hypothetical, or unreal. The conditional sentences consist of an if-clause and main clause, with some types using past tense verbs to talk about unreal past conditions and their results.

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    The document discusses conditional sentences in English. There are five main types of conditional sentences that use different verb tenses depending on whether the condition is possible, hypothetical, or unreal. The conditional sentences consist of an if-clause and main clause, with some types using past tense verbs to talk about unreal past conditions and their results.

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    Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and

    what we wish would happen. In English, most sentences using the conditional contain the word if.
    Many conditional forms in English are used in sentences that include verbs in one of the past tenses.
    This usage is referred to as "the unreal past" because we use a past tense but we are not actually
    referring to something that happened in the past. There are five main ways of constructing conditional
    sentences in English. In all cases, these sentences are made up of an if clause and a main clause. In
    many negative conditional sentences, there is an equivalent sentence construction using
    "unless" instead of "if".

    Conditional sentence Usage If clause verb Main clause v


    type tense

    Zero General truths Simple present Simple presen

    Type 1 A possible condition and its probable result Simple present Simple future

    Type 2 A hypothetical condition and its probable result Simple past Present condit
    conditional

    Type 3 An unreal past condition and its probable result in Past perfect Perfect conditi
    the past

    Mixed type An unreal past condition and its probable result in Past perfect Present contdi
    the present

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