Name: English Grammar Lessons - Using 'if' in English - English Tutorials For Beginners
Uploaded: 2014-06-23T14:50:42.000Z
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Basic quantifiers

‘If’ is a very common word, often used in many conversations.

Future simple

It gives the condition that something will happen only when something else happens.

This lesson shows you through some conversations, how to use ‘if’ correctly.

Practice the lines by pausing the video anywhere you want and repeating the lines.

To brush up on your vocabulary, have a look at the vocabulary section at the end.

Hi Daniel. Do you know how to use the word ‘if’ correctly in English conversations?

I do know how to use ‘if’ in some sentences.

But sometimes it’s very confusing and I just can’t figure out when and where to use it.

I know some situations when we can use it.

Here’s an example: If you don’t drink water, you’ll die.

Okay, so I can say that if you stand in the rain, you’ll get wet, which is true and happens to me a lot.

Let’s take another example, where ‘if’ can be used to talk about the possibility of something happening in the future.

Let me see… Okay, I know: if I were a millionaire, I would buy an airplane.

I think ‘if’ is also used to join two conditions together in which the second condition depends on the first one.

That’s right, Daniel. For example, I won’t be hungry anymore if I eat a pizza.

Yes, in your example, there are two situations. Eating a pizza, and being hungry.

If you eat a pizza, then you won’t be hungry.

Okay, now let’s listen to some conversations.

If you eat an apple every day, it helps you fight sickness.

Yeah, I know that. But if I don’t eat an apple a day, will I die?

No, probably not. But I think it’s better if you do start eating an apple every day.

I don’t know. There are plenty of good things to eat than apples.

Yeah, you’re probably right. There are other fruits too.

I think you’ll be healthier if you eat any sort of fruits. Fruits are healthy.

That’s right, but I am going to eat apples because I like apples.

If you were given one billion dollars, what would you buy?

I would probably buy an expensive car, a house and an airplane.

And if I had some money left I would buy a farm.

So, what would you do If you got that much money?

I think I would help out my family first and then the poor, and if I still had money leftover, then I’ll use it for myself.

Wow. I would never do what you would do, if I had so much money.

Well, money changes people. But before we buy something, we should always think:

“what if I didn’t have this much money?”

I did. But only if would've studied more. I would’ve passed.

It’s ok. It’s just one test, and if you study really hard for the rest of the year, your Spanish will improve.

I really hope so because if I fail again, I won’t get a scholarship to Spain.

Don’t worry. I’ll help you with your Spanish if you help me with my math.

Find out the answer, or understand something.

You might want to figure out how you’re going to get home when your car isn’t working.

Or you might want to figure out how much it will cost to buy a new car!

Someone who has a lot of money, at least one million dollars, is called a millionaire.

Very costly. You need a lot of money to buy something expensive, but what’s expensive to one person may not be expensive to another.

You might think a Mercedes is an expensive car, but if you were a millionaire, you wouldn’t think it was so expensive.

I might think a $10 hamburger is expensive, and you might think that’s an average price.

I believe you learned something from watching this lesson.

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