Conditionals

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As we stated in the introduction, in this blog we are going to talk about different games, resources, videos, websites, etc., for making your languages' learning much easier from now on. However, we are going to focus on the CONDITIONALS in English but, what the hell is that?

According to one of the definitions that we can find on this link (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/conditional), a conditional is:

Grammar 

(of a clause, phrase, conjunction, or verb form) expressing a condition.

But, what is a condition? We can say that it is something that you need to happen for having a specific result. For example:

If it rains, I will get wet.

The condition that you need for getting wet (the result) is that it rains first (condition).

Let's have a look at another sentence:

If you were here, I would go to the party.

In this case, the condition would be "if you were here", leaving us the result "I would go to the party" (maybe because it would be funnier, more entertaining or I just would like to be with that person).

Thus, we must say that those two parts of the conditional sentence, both the result and the condition are called in English clauses, and they are necessary for making our conditional statements.

As a final point, according to the probability that there is for something to happen we will have three different types of conditionals: the first, the second and the third. But do not worry too much about this now! We will explain them in the following entries. Here there is a picture to illustrate them though from a wonderful website for learning English through nice illustrations. If you click on the pic, you will be redirected to the website!

Credit from this picture to https://www.theenglishstudent.com/blog, who you can also follow on Twitter on @TheEngStudent