Master English Conditionals: Zero, First, Second, Third & Mixed

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  Hi, and welcome to the Espresso English podcast,

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  where you can improve your English in just a few minutes a day.

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  My name is Shayna, and I'm the teacher at Espresso English.

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  where you can get online courses and e-books that will help you learn English even faster.

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  Let's get started with today's lesson.

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  If it rains this weekend, what will you do?

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  If you were an animal, what kind would you be?

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  If you'd been born a hundred years ago, how would your life have been different?

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  These are all examples of conditional sentences which describe a situation and its possible result.

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  Conditionals are some of the trickiest sentence structures in English,

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  but today I'll make them clear.

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  In this lesson, you'll learn the five main types of conditionals and exactly how they work.

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  And don't miss the bonus download.

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  It's a free PDF with 50 different conditional sentences so you can see many different examples of how to use them.

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  As I said, conditional sentences express a cause and effect relationship.

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  If something happens, something else will happen.

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  And different types of conditionals show whether the situation is real, possible, or imaginary.

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  First, we have the zero conditional that talks about facts or things that are always true.

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