Conditionals can be confusing, but they don’t have to be! In this lesson, Claire explains the zero, first, second, and third conditionals with simple examples that actually make sense. You’ll learn ...

Conditional sentences express a connection between two actions or states. One thing happens because of another. These connections can be general, specific, likely, unlikely, real or imagined. Although ...

When this column took up the grammar of "if"-conditional sentences last week, I emphasized that a good communicator doesn't make bland assertions of truth every time but expresses them simply as ...

We use the third conditional to talk about imagined past events: things that might have happened in the past, but didn’t happen. She wouldn’t have become ill if she’d taken the medicine. It would have ...