Past conditionals are used to speculate about hypothetical past situations and their probable results. They contain the word "if" followed by the simple past tense in the if-clause, and the conditional "would" plus the base verb form in the result clause. Examples include "If you went to bed earlier, you would wake up earlier too", "If Paul spoke Italian, he would live in Italy", and "If Paul worked, he would have enough money to buy a house".

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Past Conditionals

2. Past Conditionals
 Conditional tenses are used to speculate
about what could happen, what might happen,
what we wish would happen.
 The sentences using the conditional contain
the word ‘if’.
 Past conditionals also include, besides the
word ‘if’, the simple past verb tense in the if-
clause.

3. Past Conditionals
 Past conditionals are used to describe an
hypothetical condition (but a real-life situation)
and its probable result.
If Simple Past
... Present
Conditional
(WOULD +
PRESENT)

4. Past Conditionals
 Examples
‘If you went to bed earlier, you
would wake up earlier too’.
‘If Paul spoke italian, he would
live in Italy’.
‘If Paul worked, he would have
enough money to buy a house’.