Do you know how to make conditional statements in English?

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In this lesson, you will practice how to make conditional statements in English.

Let's look at the main dialogue.

Two people are having a conversation.

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.

In this conversation, this person says,

If I had a bowling alley, I've used the metric system. He uses this sentence to say what he would do in an ideal but unlikely situation.

The main focus starts with if, which establishes that this situation is an imagined what if situation.

Then he says, I had a bowling alley.

He uses a verb in the past simple tense to explain the ideal situation.

After that, he says, I'd, a contraction of I would.

This means what follows is what he, the speaker, would do if the situation he just described came true.

Finally, he says, use the metric system.

This is a phrase that uses a bare infinitive verb to show what he would do if the conditions were met.

A bare infinitive is a verb in its

infinitive form, like to go, but without the word to. Again, that's a past simple

verb phrase for the condition and then a bare infinitive verb phrase to show what they would

do if that condition were met. Let's practice with this grammar more in this

lesson. Let's do some fill-in-the-blank questions. Choose the best answer to

complete the sentence. Ready? If I, a restaurant, it would a pizza place.

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