Conditional sentences have two parts:
1. If-clause
2. Main clause
In the sentence - If you walk fast, you will get there in time.
If you walk fast is the if-clause
and you will get there in time is the Main Clause.
There are three kinds of conditionals.
Each kind contains a different tense pattern and expresses a different shade of meaning.
Type 2 ➡️ Improbable/unreal condition ▶️
The Simple Past is used in the if-clause and would/should/could/might + first form of the verb is used in the Main Clause.
Examples:
1. If you paid the electricity bill in advance, you would save forty rupees.
2. If I were you, I wouldn't give her the laptop.
3. If I went there by car I could get there in time.
This type is used when the action in the if-clause is thought unlikely to happen.
If I went there by car means that it is possible that I will go there by car but not probable.
We also use this type to talk about unreal situations in the present ➡️ If I were you.
In this type, as in Type 1, the reference is to the Present or Future.
The Simple Past in the if-clause is not a true past but a subjunctive expressing unreality.
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