Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals.

Fake Tense is particularly common to conditional constructions. This paper analyzes Fake Tense in English conditional sentences as a certain kind of ambiguity: the past tense morphology can mark the ...

‘If’ usually introduces conditional clauses. The same applies to other conditionals such as unless, should and in case which, however, perform other functions in different contexts.