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Conditionals: Types 0, 1, 2 and 3

Chno khassek tfhem

Conditional kat3ni wa7ed condition w chno kaytbedel ila had condition t7e99e9.

4 patterns

  • Type 0: If + present → present
  • Type 1: If + present → will + V
  • Type 2: If + past → would + V
  • Type 3: If + had + V3 → would have + V3

Kifach t3ref l-type

  • Fact / 7a9i9a 3amma → Type 0
  • Possibility reala f l-mosta9bal → Type 1
  • 7aja khayaliya daba → Type 2
  • Nadama 3la 7aja f l-madi → Type 3

Examples

If I study, I will pass.

If I studied more, I would pass.

If I had studied, I would have passed.

BAC practice

  1. If it rains, we ___ (stay) home.
  2. If I had money, I ___ (travel).
  3. If she had studied, she ___ (pass).

Correction

  1. will stay
  2. would travel
  3. would have passed

Before you leave this lesson

  1. Explain the main rule in your own words.
  2. Redo the examples without looking at the correction.
  3. Write one new example using the same pattern.
  4. Move to the previous or next lesson and connect the two rules.
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