The document provides rules and examples for using conditional sentences in English, including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd conditional types. It also covers "wish" and "if only" structures. Examples are given to demonstrate how to use the correct tense and structure in conditional sentences. Readers are given practice filling in the blanks in sample conditional sentences using the proper form.

1. 1ºBAC - REVISION OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCES (1ST
, 2ND
AND 3RD
TYPE)
Rules Examples
1st
TYPE For possible present or future events:
• <if + present simple> and <will + infinitive>
• <will + infinitive> and <if + present simple>
If those girls win the beauty contest they
will become professional models.
We'll go to Madrid if it doesn't rain.
2nd
TYPE For improbable or imaginary situations in the present or
future:
• <if + past simple> and <would + infinitive>
• <would+ infinitive> and <if + past simple>
If the Rolling Stones came to Spain again
I would go to their concert.
I would travel to Finland if I had the
money.
3rd
TYPE For events that didn't happen in the past:
• <if + past perfect> and <would have + past participle>
• <would have + past participle> and <if + past perfect>
• <had + subject + past part.> and <would have + past
participle>
If she had known the film was free she
would have come with us.
Would your parents have let you come if
they had known we were going by train?
Had the situation been better, the king
would have visited the Prime Minister.
Provide the right tense in the following conditional sentences:
1. If you met Justin Bieber, ____________________ (you /ask) for an autograph?
2. If it ____________________ (rain) at the weekend, Jake and Pat won't come to our party.
3. People tend to put on weight if they ____________________ (not / exercise)
4. She ____________________ (be) late for the exam if she doesn't hurry.
5. What ____________________ (Matt Damon / do) if he were offered to be James Bond in a film?
6. If you ____________________ (buy) a bike, would you use it every day?
7. She ____________________ (feel) better if she hadn't eaten so many cakes.
8. Wouldn't you be bored if you ____________________ (have) to work in a bank?
9. It would have been very easy for us to work as actors if our parents ____________________ (be)
Hollywood stars.
10. If she had been a bit taller she ____________________ (select) for the job.
11. Had Fernando Alonso had a better car, he____________________ (win) most of the races this year.
12. If you leave this job now, you____________________ (regret) it in a couple of weeks.
13. If developing countries were richer, the world _________________ (be) different.
14. Charlie's health will get worse if he ____________________ (not / stop) eating junk food.
15. If our team had trained more, we ___________________ (win) the team.
16. If you ____________________ (be) a celebrity, what would you change in your life?
17. If she ____________________ (know) you were coming, she would have made one of her chocolate
cakes.
18. If you didn't drink enough water your kidneys __________________ (suffer).
I WISH / IF ONLY - Rules Examples
Wish / if only + past simple/continuous We want something to be different. I wish the weather were better.
If only my parents could come.
Wish / if only + had + past participle We regret something from the past. I wish I had studied harder for the test.
Wish / if only + would + infinitive We complain about something. If only you would stop making noise.
Finish these sentences with the right structure and content after wish or if only.
1. The weather is very bad. I wish the weather _________________ better.
2. I don't like their complaining all the time. If only they ___________________________.
3. His girlfriend never calls. If only she ______________________________.
4. I'm bad at basketball but all my friends are very good. I wish _________________________
5. I ate too much pasta for lunch and I'm not feeling well. I wish ________________________
6. Telling him a lie wasn't a good idea. I wish you ____________________________________