There are no grammar mistakes, but clarify and explain what she is really trying to say.įor further practice with the second conditional you can think of some advice to give Nica. Do you understand what Nica is trying to express? She was so mixed up after her boyfriend had left for Colombia and she started to keep a diary, using a lot of mixed conditionals. Look at the mixed conditionals in the diary entry below. (you drank too much last night thats why you have a. (we didnt follow the sign, and now we are lost) If you had drunk less last night, you wouldnt have a hangover. The structure is: if + past simple, would (could, might) have + past participle. This type of mixed conditional expresses a hypothetical condition in the past with an imaginary result in the present: If we had followed the sign, we wouldnt be lost now. The meaning is: I am not a diligent person and because of this present condition I have never finished my degree. We use it to express that due to certain present conditions something already happened in the past.įor example: if I was more diligent, I would've finished my degree at university. The next one has a present condition and a past result. The structure is: If + past perfect, would (could, might) + infinitive.

We use it to express that if something had been different in the past there would be a present result.įor example: if we hadn't missed our flight we'd be in Spain now. A) Verb Tenses in First, Second, and Third Conditional Sentences. The first one has a condition in the past and a present result. We are going to look at two mixed conditionals that express unreal situations. Depending on the meaning we try to convey we have many different conditionals at our exposal to express ourselves clearly. An Upper-Intermediate lesson on mixed conditionalsĪ conditional consist of two clauses: the condition or if-clause and the main or result clause.

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