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Sentenceswith rl Sentenceswith if are called conditional sentences) and consist of trvo parts. One part dependson, or rtsultsfi,ow, the other part. Both parts arc usuallyjoined b¡. if. Therc are tbree mitn qpcs of conclitional scntcnccs in English, which rcfcr to difli:rent times and situations,and use ditferent tensepattcrns In ordcr to dccidc which conditio;ral to use, \¡ou shoulcl irskvoursclf if ,vou arc rvriting about: I a,future evert (the first conditional) 2 an event or situation wl'ich is itnaginnr\ or u.nreñl (the second conditional) 3 an event rvhich took placein the p¿.rt(the thircl conditional).
The firsr cond¡t¡onol If you r.vantto talk or r'vrite about things that v,111 wr1 proúaúft ha¡r¡renin the rLSe the firllou,ing pattern. tense futuye, if + prcscnt ... futurc ii I ttr jtlil?1, t'ii lt willj l.elihíft:.