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What is Grammar?
English Grammar Terms
The 8 English Parts of
Speech
These are the words that you use to make a sentence.
There are only
8 types of word - and the most
important is the Verb!
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Verbs |
be, have, do, work |
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Nouns |
man, town, music |
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Adjectives |
a, the, 69, big |
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Adverbs |
loudly, well, often |
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Pronouns |
you, ours, some |
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Prepositions |
at, in, on, from |
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Conjunctions |
and, but, though |
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Interjections |
ah, dear, er, um |
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Passive voice
Modal verbs
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verbs
Going to
Gerunds
Phrasal Verbs
Tenses
Nouns
(Un) Countable nouns
Adjectives
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Pronouns
Preposition List
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| Grammar Quizzes
Parts of Speech Quiz
Verb Classification Quiz
Main Verb Forms Quiz
Active or Passive Quiz
Subjunctive Quiz
Future Time Quiz
Continuous Tense Verb
Quiz
Used to do or Be used to
Quiz
Have to,
Must, Must not Quiz
Can, Could, Be able
to Quiz
Questions Quiz
Tag Questions
Quiz
Infinitive or
-ing Quiz
Gerunds Quiz
Phrasal Verbs
Quiz
Conditionals Quiz
For or Since Quiz
Present Simple
Present Continuous
Present Perfect
Simple
Present Perfect
Continuous
Past Simple
Questions
Comparative
Adjectives
Superlative
Adjectives
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Second Conditional:
unreal possibility or dream
The second conditional is like the first conditional. We
are still thinking about the future. We are thinking about a particular
condition in the future, and the result of this condition. But there is
not a real possibility that this condition will happen. For example, you
do not have a lottery ticket. Is it possible to win? No! No lottery
ticket, no win! But maybe you will buy a lottery ticket in the future. So you
can think about winning in the future, like a dream. It's not very real, but
it's still possible.
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condition |
result |
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past simple |
WOULD + base verb |
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I won the lottery |
I would buy a car. |
Notice that we are thinking about a future condition. We use the
past simple tense to talk about the future condition. We use WOULD + base verb
to talk about the future result. The important thing about the second
conditional is that there is an unreal possibility that the condition will
happen.
Here are some more examples:
| IF |
condition |
result |
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past simple |
WOULD + base verb |
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I married Mary |
I would be happy. |
| If |
Ram became rich |
she would marry him. |
| If |
it snowed next July |
would you be surprised? |
| If |
it snowed next July |
what would you do? |
| result |
IF |
condition |
| WOULD + base verb |
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past simple |
| I would be happy |
if |
I married Mary. |
| She would marry Ram |
if |
he became rich. |
| Would you be surprised |
if |
it snowed next July? |
| What would you do |
if |
it snowed next July? |
| EnglishClub.com Tip |
| Sometimes, we use
should, could or might instead of would, for
example: If I won a million dollars, I could stop working. |
Third Conditional
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