Do you know how to make conditional statements in English?

Hi, my name is Alicia and this is Three Step English by English Class 101.com.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to make conditional statements in English through a quick conversation.

Let's look at the dialogue. As you listen, pay attention to how they ask about the topic and how the other person responds.

I'll take a size 38 shoe please.

Jingleo, I think you're more of a size 7.

That doesn't make much sense.

Well, how does it fit?

It fits perfectly, actually, though I'm still confused.

Yeah, if I had a bowling alley, I'd use the metric system.

Well, I'll just have to remember I'm a size 7 from now on.

Let's go over the dialogue again, more slowly this time. I'll take a size 38 shoe,

please. Jing Liu, I think you're more of a size 7. That doesn't make much sense. Well, how does it fit? It fits perfectly, actually, though I'm still

confused. Yeah, if I had a bowling alley, I'd use the metric system. Well, I'll just

have to remember I'm a size 7 from now on.

Let's look at the sentence pattern.

This pattern is the structure that all of our examples will follow.

If, past simple verb phrase, would, bear infinitive verb phrase.

We use this pattern to talk about what would happen in an ideal but unlikely situation.

Between the past simple verb phrase and would, there will be a pronoun that refers to the subject. However, it is often contracted with wood using words such as I'd, weed, or sheed.

Let's see how a line from the dialogue follows this pattern. Yeah, if I had a bowling alley, I'd use the metric system. The structure

starts with if. This establishes that the following is a what if, imagined situation.

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