If he wasn't so slow, he would have caught the train. If he hadn't missed the train, he would be here by now. If he hadn't missed the train, he could have got there on time. Past condition with impossible result (Third conditional).Present or future condition when something is unlikely or hypothetical (Second conditional).If you're hungry, there's some ham and cheese in the fridge. There's a class of helper verbs known as modals that we use to express a bunch of conditions: we can use them to give advice, make guesses at how necessary or likely something is, make requests of people, and so on. If you don't like seafood, you should have said. These often mix time references and tenses. Various other constructions, including false conditions, where the condition has already been fulfilled, and psuedo conditions where the result is not dependent on the condition being fulfilled.If it stops raining, why don't we go for a walk? Various constructions, where the result is dependent on the condition being fulfilled, but which don't quite fit the patterns of First conditional.If he managed to catch the early train, he should be here any minute.
Present perfect / Past simple / Past continuous. Past conditions (when we don't know if they've been fulfilled yet) with present or future result.General conditions in the past (Zero in the past - see below).Present or future probability (First conditional).General conditions in the present (Zero conditional).The main thing thing to remember here is that for present and future time we use a present tense in the if-clause and follow the normal rules of tense and modals in the result clause, and so: Real conditionals include:
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