Conditional Sentences

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• A Conditional sentence is one in which one thing
  depends on another.
• They are used to make predictions or explore
  possibilities.
• They are concerned with things that
• will
• might
• should
• or could happen.

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If

• Conditional sentences often contain the
  connective
• if
• or sometimes
• unless
• providing/provided
• as long as
• when

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• Conditional sentences can also refer to
  imaginary situations - what might have been.
• I would help you if I could (but I cant).
• What would you do if you were in my place?
• If the weather had been sunny we could have gone
  to the beach.

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Modal Verbs

• Certain verbs are often used in conditional
  sentences.
• These verbs are called modal verbs.
• They are usually used with other verbs, not on
  their own.

must ought can could may might will would shall
should
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Complete these sentences which contain modal
verbs.

• I can help you if
• You should have
• We might go
• I wouldnt do
• You ought to eat
• She will be late...

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Suggest endings for these conditional sentences.

• If I always do my homework I should
• If my mum wins the lottery we might
• If I were Madonna I would
• If I were David Beckham I could...

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Sometimes we daydream about the way our lives
might turn out If only...

• Do you think this excuse would get you off doing
  lines?
• If my mum hadnt crashed the car on her way home
  from work and been so shaken up
• that she forgot to feed the dog
• then the dog wouldnt have eaten my pencil
• and I would have been able to do my homework.

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In Toms Midnight Garden Phillipa Pearce uses
conditional sentences to show how Tom tries to
make sense of what has happened.

• Had it been a dream? Another possible explanation
  occurred to himghosts. That was what they could
  all have been ghosts Indeed, if it were haunted
  at all, the hall was overhaunted.
• Ghosts Tom doubtfully put his hand up out of the
  bedclothes to see if his hair were standing on
  end. It was not.