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. We use the zero ...

One of the things we should avoid as a communicator is to get an unsavory reputation for declaring everything we say as absolute truth. To be a credible, we need a well-developed capacity to ...

When this column took up the grammar of "if"-conditional sentences last week, I emphasized that a good communicator doesn't make bland assertions of truth every time but expresses them simply as ...

What is a conditional sentence? Conditionals are structures which express a situation and the possible results. If it rains, I'll stay inside and watch a film. Use the zero conditional to express ...

Yes, it is correct that we cannot use a contracted negative form when we use inverted word order to express unreal or impossible condition in the past. Instead, we are obliged to use the full form of ...