Conditional Sentences | Rules & Examples
Conditionals are three types:
1st Conditional (open Condition):
If / unless + present simple + Future (shall, will, can, may)
Examples:
1. If you read more, you will pass the exam.
2. If you eat a balanced diet, you can be healthy.
2nd Conditional (Improbable or Imaginary condition):
If/ unless + past simple + Future in the past (would, could, might)
Examples:
1. If you worked hard, you would shine in life.
2. unless you obeyed me, You would be punished.
3rd conditional (Unfulfilled condition):
If/ unless + past perfect + Future (would/ could/ might + have + v3)
Examples:
1. If you had worked hard, you would have shone in life.
2. If you had come to me, I might have helped you.
Such Examples for Completing Sentence
- It is long since he died
- It was long since he had died
- She speaks as if she were mad
- She spoke as though she had known everything
- The old man is walking carefully lest he should fall down
- He will come provide you come
- Hardly had we reached the college before the rain started
- He cannot walk a mile let alone five miles
- I look forward to meeting you
- He went to library with a view to borrowing a book
- Would you mind taking a cup of tea?
- The book is worth reading.
- We could not help laughing.
- I feel like crying
- He used to smoke
- He is used to smoking.
- A graveyard is the place where dead bodies are buried
- It is time 11pm, when I go to bed
- It is time/it is high time you read attentively
- It is high time for you to read attentively.
- He is intelligent enough to get gpa5
- He has enough money to buy a car.
- I saw an accident while going to college/ I was going to college.