Name: Conditional and IF clauses - Learn English Grammar
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Today, I'm going to talk about “if” clauses.

So, “if” clauses are used in a variety
of different sentence patterns.

We use them to do a variety of different things
as well.

So, today, I'm going to give kind of an introduction
into a few cases where you can use “if”

First, I want to introduce two basic patterns
for using “if” clauses.

“If” clauses can come at the beginning
of a sentence and can be followed by a main

So, we can begin with an “if” statement
and end with the main statement or the opposite

First, a main clause followed by the “if”
clause, both are okay.

A few things I want to talk about today are
how to use some of these sentences.

We can use “if” clause sentences, these
kinds of patterns, for making plans and planning

All of these include a specific condition
introduced by the “if” statement.

I'll explain a little more in just a moment.

We can use these for making plans, talking
about plans, asking questions about plans.

We can use these for talking about our future
activities, so potential activities in the

We can use it for talking about past potential,
so things different in the past, an action

done differently in the past and the potential
different outcome in the future.

This is a very complex grammar point but this
is very, very useful.

Okay, finally, we can use them to talk about
advice and to give recommendations as well.

To ask for and give recommendations actually.

This is a very, very useful kind of sentence
and I want to share a couple ways that you

can use these, as well as a couple grammar
points inside the sentences, especially, in

the main clause that I hope you can use to
make these kinds of statements and to make

Okay, first, I want to look at “if” clauses.

So, “if” clauses, they begin with this
“if” statement.

We use an “if” clause to express a condition.

A condition meaning some possibility or some
potential.

For example, “If it's sunny tomorrow,”
“If the weather is sunny tomorrow, blah,

So, we use “if' at the beginning of the
“if” clause to introduce our condition

that's going to lead us into the main clause.

So, in our main clause, the main clause can
express a result, a potential result, it can

express a recommendation, it can express a
question.

There are a lot of different things we can
do with the main clause and a lot of different

So, I want to look at a few examples here.

Let's look at this first sentence which I
already talked about.

This one, “If it's sunny tomorrow,” for
example, “I'll go to the beach.”

Here I have my “if” expression, my “if”
clause, the condition is the weather, “If

it's sunny tomorrow,” I have here, “I'll
go to the beach.”

You'll note that I've used “I'll”, “I
will” because, in this case, it sounds like

Maybe you've seen the video we did about the
difference between “will” and “going

So, when we use “will,” it's often used
in times when we've just made a decision,

So, here, “If it's sunny tomorrow, I'll
go to the beach.”

Please be careful, however, do not use “will”
in this sentence, in this part of the sentence.

For example, some people say, “If it will
be sunny tomorrow,” it's not correct.

We need to use “will” in the main clause.

“If it's sunny, I'll go to the beach.”

So, this sentence means, “If the weather
is nice tomorrow, my plan, I just decided,

Let's look at one more sentence that is similar.

“If you pass the test,” here is my condition,
“If you pass the test,” here, “you'll

So, once more, you can see, I've used “will”
here in the contracted form.

“You will get a certification if you pass
the test.”

So, keep in mind, as I said before, we can
swap, we can reverse the sentence patterns

and the sentence meaning remains the same.

Just please be careful, if you're using “will,”
make sure it's in your main clause, not in

Let's take a look at something a little bit
different.

Here I have, “If we got approval for the
project,” “If we got,” here you'll see,

“If we got approval for the project,”
this is the past participle form here.

“If we got approval for the project, we
would begin on Monday.”

This is a situation, you can see I've used
the past participle here and “would” in

the main clause, by changing the tense of
my verb, I change the potential of the situation.

This is a sentence we might use when making
a proposal.

“If we got approval for the project,”
in the future, in theory, so meaning in possibility,

this is not certain, it's not in my control
now.

But, if this were the case, “If I got the
approval for the project, I would--we would

This is a future potential situation, something
that is potentially--I'm potentially capable

or we are potentially able to do but it has
not been decided yet.

In these cases, we need to use “would”
in the main clause.

Okay, so, let's take a look at the next sentence
here.

Similar to the previous sentence I talked
about.

The sentence--the “if” clause here is,
“If I hired you for the job,” you can

see the verb here is also different as we
talked about in the previous sentence.

“If I hired you for the job, you would get
$50,000 a year.”

So, once more, this is a future potential
sentence and we know that because of the verbs

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