Transcript Real Conditionals

By AJ Brown
Real Conditionals
If …. Then…
What are they?
There are two kinds of real conditional sentences:
1.Future Real Conditionals – describe situations
that have not happened but will happen under
a certain circumstance.
1.Present Real Conditionals - describe situations
that always happen under the same
circumstances.
(1) Future Real Conditionals
In other words, the “will” verb only
happens when the “if” verb occurs.
• If you heat water, it will boil.
• This shirt will shrink if you wash it.
• If it is rainy tomorrow, I’m going to the movies.
• I will give a student a zero if he cheats or
plagiarizes.
What are the verb tenses?
Did you notice…?
• Which verb tenses are used in future real
conditionals?
simple
present
dependent (if) clause = simple
present
independent (main) clause = future
will
be
future
willor
or be
going
to to
going
• What is the punctuation?
commacomma
if clause first = tomatoes
if clause second = Allison
is comma
no comma
(2) Present Real Conditionals
Both verbs use
• If AJ has money, she spends
it.the present simple
tense.
• This window squeaks if you get it wet.
• If he exercises in the morning, he feels better.
• She calls campus escorts if she walks back
from the library at night.
ALMOST like a time clause “when”
sentence…
• When AJ has money, she spends it.
• This window squeaks when you get it wet.
• When he exercises in the morning, he feels
better.
• She calls campus escorts when she walks back
from the library at night. “if” = real conditional
“when” = time (adverb) clause
Now you try…
breaks
• If the glass (break) ____________,
the water
(spill out) _________________.
will spill out
• This tree (make) ____________
will make apples if it
(grow)____________.
grows
will call
• The police (call)____________
if they (find)
__________
your purse.
find