Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 531

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  Hi there, this is Harry.

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  Welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

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  where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language,

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  to help you with your conversational skills, your business English skills,

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  interview skills, whatever your goals are, we're here to help.

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  And for those of you and your friends or family who want one lessons, well, you know what to do.

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  Just get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson.

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  And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

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  And in this particular lesson, we're going to look at conditional tenses.

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  Okay, and just a little bit of a comment on them.

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  First of all, conditional clauses usually consist of two parts.

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  You'll have the what I call the if clause,

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  or what the grammar books call the hypothesis is the difficult word to pronounce.

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  And then we have the main clause, which is the result.

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  Okay, so if clause can be first or second, it doesn't really matter.

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  And the main clause can be first or second, as long as you keep them separate.

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  Okay, so if clause, and then the main clause or main clause, and then the if clause.

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  Okay, let's start with the zero conditional.

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  And the structure of the zero conditional is that we use it to talk about something that's always true,

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  or something about the laws of nature.

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