Question

2.4. State which conditional is used in each of the following sentences

Answer 1

Answer:

First conditional a) Lea will go to NUST next year if she meets the requirements.  

Zero conditional b) If you freeze water, it becomes solid.

Second conditional c) If I get $1 million in my life, I will marry the most beautiful woman in the universe.  

Third conditional d) Had I studied this course ten years ago, I would have become a lecturer.  

Mixed type conditional e) If I hadn't withdrawn from the gang, I would also be in prison now.

Explanation:

Conditionals are used to express things that we think could happen, had happened, or will happen. There are different types.

• The Zero conditionals are universal truths. For example, it is a known fact that freezing water will make it solid.
• First conditionals are used to refer to future conditions that we believe are real or possible.
• Second conditionals are present or future conditions that are impossible or unlikely.
• The third conditionals are possible conditions in the past and their probable results.
• Mixed type conditionals are used to correlate a situation in the past and results that exist in the present.