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This lesson explains the second conditional in English, which is used to describe hypothetical, improbable, or unreal situations. Mark details the grammatical structure required to form these sentences and provides guidance on verb usage and sentence flexibility to help learners express imaginary scenarios correctly.
Hello everyone, this is Mark from www.englishmark.net.
If you lived in Canada, you would speak English.
In this lesson, I will teach you the second conditional.
The second conditional is the hypothetical sentence in English.
It indicates that the condition of the sentence, the hypothetical sentence, is improbable, unrealizable.
Therefore, the condition is not real, it is hypothetical, it cannot be realized.
As I said at the beginning of this video, if you lived in Canada, you would speak English.
Obviously, you don't live in Canada, so you can't speak English there.
So, how do we do this second conditional?
First, we have to identify if.
After if, we have to put the past simple or past continuous.
This is the first part, and therefore the condition.
The second part goes with would, could or might plus the verb in the infinitive.
We must remember that we often, when we use this second conditional,
we like to use were when we need the verb to be.
The hypothetical sentence, as I said, can also have the present or the past continuous.
This is with the past continuous.
If, instead, as I said in the second part, it goes with might, I can give you another example.
As you noticed, here I inserted the first part, that is, the if clause, at the end.
These two parts can be interchangeable.
There is no need to insert if at the first part.
No, you can also say it in the second phase.
We use the second conditional when the hypothetical sentence is improbable or it is not real.
And the condition, therefore the result, is not real, it is improbable.
It is not realizable, in short.
We use were for all pronouns when we want to use the verb to be.
It is not a mistake if you use if I was, if she was, but it sounds better if you use were.
Then in the if clause, therefore the hypothetical sentence, it can also have the past continuous.
And not just the simple past.
In the sentence, in the result, you can also use would, could or might.
One of these three.
Ok, now I have a question to ask you.
How would you learn English if you didn't have the internet?
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