jueves, 12 de enero de 2017

FIRST CONDITIONAL GRAMMAR

First Conditional

for real possibility
If I win the lottery, I will buy a car.
We are talking about the future. We are thinking about a particular condition or situation in the future, and the result of this condition. There is a real possibility that this condition will happen. For example, it is morning. You are at home. You plan to play tennis this afternoon. But there are some clouds in the sky. Imagine that it rains. What will you do?
ifconditionresult
 Present Simplewill + base verb
Ifit rains,will stay at home.
Notice that we are thinking about a future condition. It is not raining yet. But the sky is cloudy and you think that it could rain. We use the Present Simple tense to talk about the possible future condition. We use will + base verb to talk about the possible future result. The important thing about the first conditional is that there is a real possibility that the condition will happen.
Here are some more examples (do you remember the two basic structures: [ifcondition result] and [result if condition]?):
ifconditionresult
 Present Simplewill + base verb
IfI see Mary,I will tell her.
IfTara is free tomorrow,he will invite her.
Ifthey do not pass their exam,their teacher will be sad.
Ifit rains tomorrow,will you stay at home?
Ifit rains tomorrow,what will you do?
resultifcondition
will + base verb Present Simple
I will tell MaryifI see her.
He will invite Taraifshe is free tomorrow.
Their teacher will be sadifthey do not pass their exam.
Will you stay at homeifit rains tomorrow?
What will you doifit rains tomorrow?

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