English conditionals
13 concepts in English Grammar, in level order. Open one to read how it works and try practice items.
Pre-Intermediate
- First conditional — if + present simple, will + infinitive Talking about the likely future result of a possible situation.
Intermediate
- Choosing between conditionals Which conditional the situation actually calls for.
- First conditional and future time clauses if, when, until, as soon as, with a present verb.
- Second conditional Imagining a situation that is not the case.
- Third conditional Imagining a past that did not happen.
Intermediate Plus
- First and second conditionals A likely condition and an imagined one, side by side.
- Third conditional and other uses of the past perfect Regret, and the earlier of two past events.
Upper-Intermediate
- Unreal conditionals Second and third, mixed, and the past that did not happen.
- wish for past regrets Wishing something in the past had been otherwise.
- wish for present and future Regret about now, and about what will not change.
- Zero and first conditionals, and future time clauses Facts, likely futures, and the clauses that carry them.
Advanced
- Conditional sentences — full range Mixed, inverted, and with alternatives to if.
Advanced Plus
- Expressing conditionality Conditionals without if, and the alternatives to them.