Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...

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 ...

What is a conditional sentence? Conditionals are structures which express a situation and the possible results. If it rains, I'll stay inside and watch a film. Use the zero conditional to express ...

Many languages allow for "fake" uses of their past tense marker: the marker: can occur in certain contexts without conveying temporal pastness. Instead it appears to bear a modal meaning. Iatridou ...

Defining the constraints on the use of the modals will and would in futurate if-clauses in English poses problems to both descriptive and theoretical linguists. One 'rule' often referred to is that ...