8. GRAMMAR: CONDITIONALS

 Hey, what's up readers! Our today's topic is going to be a bit of grammar: CONDITIONALS.

We know some of you struggle sometimes with this kind of structures, but we are going to explain them easily so you can understand. Basically, exists 4 types of conditionals named from 0 to 3.

But fist fo all, what the heck is a conditional structure? Well, we mostly use conditionals to express a hypothetic action based in the future with several grades of probabilities. If the action is more probable, it will be closer to the 0 conditional, although if it is less probable, this will be written in the 3rd conditional structure (see forward).

Also, it is essential to understand that all conditionals are mostly recognizable because of the "if" particle. This word plays the importance of the first part. Here we will find a structure like this:

1. IF + SUBJECT + TENSE 1 + (COMPLEMENTS) *(this part can be considered the condition).

e.g. If something happens to me...

While in the second part of the sentence we will normally find this structure:

2. SUBJECT + TENSE 2 + (COMPLEMENTS) *(this part can be considered the consequence of the condition)

 *The actual sentence can be ordered part 1+2 or 2+1. 

Now with all of this being said and understood, let's move to the actual conditionals and their types:

• 0 CONDITIONAL: (PRESENT S. + PRESENT S.)

This is the easiest conditional of all of them. Its structure consists Basically we use this conditional to make general statements or full truths.

e.g. If you heat water at 100ºC, it boils.

• 1st CONDITIONAL: (PRESENT S. + WILL + INF.)

• 2nd CONDITIONAL: (PAST S. + WOULD + INF.)

• 3rd CONDITIONAL: (PAST PERFECT + WOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE)