Conditional mood
Grammar point
Made by Nikolai Hodosevich
Conditional mood
The conditional mood is the form of the verb used in
conditional sentences to refer to a hypothetical state of
affairs.
Conditional verb forms can also have temporal uses, often
for expressing "future in the past" tense.
Condition sentences are often entered with conjunction
IF
Real events
Structure: Additional clause Present Indefinite
Main clause Future Indefinite
If I have a lot of money, I will buy a car
,
Almost unreal events
*In additional and main clauses usually use
Subjunctive I and II
*When you translate into Russian these sentences, you
should use conjunction
* This type of unreal conditional sentence use, when speaker
wants to underline small probability of condition
realization
Almost unreal events
Structure: Additional claus...