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Hello students, I'm going to explain the zero, first and second conditionals, because some of you have asked me, so I'm going to explain them.

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So, they have something in common, and it's the if.

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If can go at the beginning of the sentence, and then you need a comma, like here, in this example here.

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or if can go in the second part of the sentence so for example you could say

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you need a passport if you go to the US so in that case you don't need a coma

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there are three types of conditional we have the zero conditional for situations

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that are true so for example if you go to the to the US you need a passport or

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Or if it doesn't rain, the plants die.

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Then we have the first conditional.

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That's for possible situations in the future and there are consequences.

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So if you aren't careful, that's a possible future situation, you will have an accident.

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That's the consequence.

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So, here in the first conditional, we see that there is a present here and a future, simple here.

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In the zero conditional, we had present and present, okay?

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Then, we have the second conditional for imaginary situations and their consequences.

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The situations are in the present or the future, not in the past.

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Why do we say that? Because even though we use a past simple here and a second conditional, I mean would plus infinitive here,

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that doesn't mean that it's something that happened in the past. It's present.

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But as it's imaginary, we use this structure.

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So, the translation of this would be, si hiciera películas, viviría en Hollywood.

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Okay, so, then we can also use that for when we give advice.

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And in that case, you can say, if I were you, or if I was you, okay, I'd do that, for example.

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If I were you, you can say that

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Or if I was you, both are possible

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And they mean exactly the same

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I hope this is a bit clearer

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So if you have more questions, ask me