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Hello! I was trying to read internet resources about differences between the conjunctions, but it turned out to be impossible for my non-native conscience to understand them. I can not give you any examples, but I would like to ask you for advice on this, and I would be grateful if you could...
Both these last two sentences keep the rules of tense sequencing in first-conditional sentences. These two sentences, however, though correct, have different meanings, for changing the tense forms creates very different emphases and alters the likely meaning most significantly.
Hello! I'm having a bit of trouble understanding conditional sentences in Swedish because it seems there are just to many different ways to say the same thing. I have doubts about a few specific situations: 1) How would I translate the following sentence, please consider all possibilities!!: If I I worked out more I'd be stronger now.
Confusion about the meaning of conditional sentences is often down to confusion about tenses, and that is often down to the way in which n-type gurus restrict the tenses which they claim can be used in a given type, and distinguish by a further number a type which is essentially the same as one already defined (these confusions, some of them ...
A type 2 conditional refers to the present/future, not to the past, so if you want to read the sentence as a type 2 conditional, it makes sense to think of this as being a temporary change from the past tense to the present tense, even though the writer doesn't use the present tense at all.
Zero conditional is about general truths, habits or routines. Thus, the connotation of the three words (when, whenever and if) do not have much sense here. I gave an example: If the sunset happens, I go to see it. Whenever the sunset happens, I go to see it. When the sunset happens, I go to see it.
The second of these sentences is less likely because the eventuality described in the main clause in such sentences depends on future rather than present circumstances. Be going to is suitable, however, if present circumstances are mentioned in the if-clause; i.e., if the condition is a present one rather than a future one: (2)
Hello Everybody, If I am not mistaken, "should" can be used as a conditional instead of "if", right? Could somebody tell me whether this sentence is right and if it is frequent to use sentences like this: Should he study hard, no doubt he would pass this course. (If he studied hard,) Thanks.
I'm not a native speaker but: "If he doesn't hurry, the plane wil have left by the time he gets to the airport."
We are familiar with the tense sequencing in the Type I (present/future) and Type II (perfect/conditional) conditional sentences, so some people might be tempted to say that all Type II conditional sentences are backshifted Type I sentences.