Conditionals are used to express both real, likely and unreal situations. As a result, tenses used with them are not flat; they change. That is why the difference between ‘If I arrive’ and ‘If I had ...

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 ...

If we all recycled more, there would be a lot less waste in the world. If I lived by the sea, I’d go swimming every day. A conditional sentence has two parts. The if part tells us about the unreal or ...