Third Conditional
Inverted Conditional
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Sentence Correction
100
In what situation do you use the third conditional?
The third conditional expresses an unreal situation in the past, with reference to the hypothetical outcome that would result also in the past.
100
In what situation do you use inverted conditionals?
To add emphasis, to make a sentence more formal
100
Fill in the blank correctly, and tell me what conditional it is.
If you buy the food, I _____ (cook) tonight.
I will cook tonight
Use: First Conditional, because it expresses a future scenario that might occur. Assuming the condition is fulfilled, it is likely to happen.
100
What happens if you heat water?
Use: Zero conditional, because it is a universal truth.
Structure: if + present tense | present tense
If you heat water, it boils.
100
What do you do when you feel bored?
When I feel bored, I read a book or look at my phone.
Use: Zero conditional, because it describes one action that usually follows another.
100
If you go to Dallas in August, you get hot weather.
Correct
200
DOUBLE POINTS
200
If it rains, we'll stay indoors.
Should it rain, we'll stay indoors.
200
Finish the sentence using the correct conditional:
If I had four legs...
Use: Second Conditional, an unrealistic hypothetical situation in the present.
200
Complete this sentence with your own idea and the correct form, and tell me what kind of conditional you should use...
If I had a million dollars...
Use: Second conditional, because it is a hypothetical that is unlikely.
Structure: If + simple past | would/might/could + base verb
Example: If I had a million dollars, I would buy a house.
200
Trade Points
200
You get orange, if you mix red and yellow.
Incorrect
You have to remove the comma if you move the "if/when clause" to the second half of the sentence.
If you mix red and yellow, you get orange.
You get orange if you mix red and yellow.
300
If we _____ (listen) to the radio, we _____ (hear) the news.
If we had listened to the radio, we would have heard the news.
300
Change this sentence to the inverted conditional:
If she had not helped me I would have been in bad trouble.
Had she not helped me I would have been in bad trouble.
300
Finish the sentence using the correct conditional:
If I didn’t have this class now....
For example: If I didn’t have this class now, I’d still be in bed.
Use: Second conditional
300
Give me advice using the appropriate conditional.
My dog is limping. What should I do?
Example: If I were you, I would take him to the vet...
Structure: If + simple past | would + base verb
Use: The Second Conditional is best for giving advice where you imagine you are the other person (an impossible situation in the present)
300
Conditional Train
The first person on your team must use this to start a conditional sentence: "If I go to the beach..."
Each person on your team must then create a new conditional sentence using the end of the previous one.
300
If she will go to university next year, we will have the house to ourselves.
If she goes to university next year, we will have the house to ourselves.
400
If you _______ (switch) on the lights, you ______ (fall / not) over the chair
If you had switched on the lights, you would not have fallen over the chair.
400
If I were you, I'd tell her the truth.
Were I you, I'd tell her the truth.
400
TRADE POINTS
400
Tell me about something you regret. Using the correct conditional, tell me: what do you wish you had done differently, and what would have been the alternate outcome?
Example: If I had gone to bed earlier, I would have done better on the test.
Use: Third conditional, when we want to talk about alternative situations, or how things could or might have been different.
Structure: if + past perfect | would/could/might + perfect infinitive
400
OPEN ROUND COMPETITION
I have $1,000 dollars. I will give this money to the group with the best offer.
Your offer must be phrased in the correct conditional format to win the points.
Example: If you give us $1,000, we will take you on a tour of Madrid. (If + present tense |will + base verb)
If you gave us $1,000, we would would take you on a tour of Madrid. (If + past tense |would + base verb)
Use: First Conditional or Second conditional.
400
I'll tell him the news, if I'll see him.
I'll tell him the news if I see him.
500
She __________ (come) to our party if she ______ (be / not) on holiday.
She would have come to our party, if she had not been on holiday.
500
If I won the lottery, I'd travel the world.
Were I to win the lottery, I'd travel the world.
500
I would go see the doctor...
If I were you...
500
Use the correct structure and conditional to answer this question:
What would you have done in 2020, if coronavirus hadn’t appeared?
Structure: if + past perfect | would/could/might + perfect infinitive
Use: Third conditional, because the third refers to impossibilities in the past. Use third conditional when the situation can't be changed because it has already happened.
500
Tell me the structure for inverting the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Conditional.
1st: If --> should + subject + infinitive
2nd: If --> Were + subject + (to - infinitive)
3rd: If --> Had + subj + past participle
500
Hadn’t she helped me I would have been in bad trouble
Had she not helped me I would have been in bad trouble.
Why: Contracted negative forms are not possible when we use an inverted word order to talk about an unreal or impossible situation in the past!