Tuesday 11 March 2008

2nd Conditional



To talk about an impossible or improbable situation, we can use if and the past simple together with would and the infinitive:

Positive and Negative:
If Past simple, Would / wouldn't Infinitive (without to)
If you lost your passport, it would take ages to get another one.
If it cost me a fortune, I wouldn't be able to take you on holiday again.

Question:
If Past simple, Would / wouldn't Infinitive (without to)
If it cost me a fortune, would I be able to take you on holiday again?
If I couldn't take you on holiday, wouldn't we save a lot of money?

If you have doubts about it:

Try quiz one, Try quiz two, Use the grammar

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