Conditional clauses. Type I

Conditional clauses are quite a difficult issue in English -they're also quite difficult to master in our own language and very often we hear people using the wrong tenses.

I have prepared some notes to help you get a clear idea of how conditional clauses work, the tenses we must use and the functions we can express with them.

We usually refer to Conditional clauses Type I as "Open condition" because we view the condition expressed in the if clause as something likely to happen. Ex: "If the weather is nice tomorrow, we'll go to the beach."

As you will see when you read the notes, we use this type of conditionals to express: general and particular cause-effect, advice, threat, offer, comments, etc...

Here you will find some exercises to practise Conditional clauses Type I

And yet another link dealing with grammar and exercises on Type I conditional clauses.

Good luck!

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