This document discusses conditional sentences, which express implications or hypothetical situations. There are three types of conditional sentences: 1) Open conditional statements refer to potential future events dependent on other future events. 2) Open hypothetical conditionals refer to possible future situations dependent on other possible futures. 3) Unfulfilled hypotheses refer to situations that might have occurred if a condition had been met, but were not. The document provides examples for each type and a sentence completion exercise involving conditional sentences.

1. Construct your sentences
about the following
pictures, starting with the
word..

8. Conditional Sentence
Conditional sentences are
sentences expressing factual
implications, or hypothetical
situations and their
consequences.

9. Three Types of Conditional
Sentence

10. 1. Open conditional statement
refers to a future event which is
conditional on another future event.
e.g.
If you eat too much, you’ll get fatter.
We won’t finish in time unless
everyone works fast.

11. It also describes one potential state of
reality or circumstance which is dependent
on another.
e.g.
If it rains, everyone gets wet.
If the temperature falls below zero, it
freezes.

12. 2. Open hypothetical conditional
statement
refers to a possible future situation
which depends on another possible future
situation.
e.g.
If you ate too much you would get fatter.
If I went to London, I would visit the British
Museum.

13. 3. Unfulfilled hypothesis
refers to situation which an event might
have taken place, but did not, because a
condition was NOT fulfilled.
e.g.
If you had eaten too much, you would
have got fatter.
If I had gone to London, I could have
visited the British Museum.

14. Sentence Completion (Conditional Sentences)
Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Form
a Conditional sentence. Mind the position of
the if-clause.
Example:
I ___________ (to bake) a cake if I
_________ (to know) that they were coming.
Answer:
I would have baked a cake if I had known that
they were coming. or
I'd have bought a a cake if I'd known that they
were coming.

15. 1) If it_____ (to be) warmer, we _____ (to go)swimming.
2) My parents ______ (to buy) this house if the man______ (not/to
sell) it to someone else.
3) If he_______ (not/to fail) his driving test, his parents_____ (to
lend) him their car.
4) If my uncle _____(to tell) me the way to his office, I _____(not/to
arrive) so late.
5) She _______(to be) at the airport if she ______(to read) the message
carefully.
6) Lucy ______(not/to hurt) her foot if she______(not/to drop) the old
box.
7) If you______ (to use) a sharp knife, you (not/to cut) yourself.
8) If Victoria (to celebrate) her birthday at home, I ______(to bring) her
some flowers.
9) We ______(to take) the train to Edinburgh if it ________ (to run) on
time.
10) If Max ______(not/to forget) my schoolbag, he _____to give) you
your USB flash drive.