- •The Noun
- •Foreword предисловие
- •Авторы the article Usage of Articles
- •Bay of Bengal
- •Madagascar
- •The noun
- •Plural and singular Usage of Nouns
- •Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- •The adjective and the pronoun
- •Some, Any, No
- •Not versus No
- •Much, Many, Few, Little
- •Other, The Other, Another
- •Different Meanings and Usage of: All, Each, Either, Neither, Every, Both
- •The adjective and the adverb
- •Degrees of Comparison
- •The verb
- •The Indicative Mood
- •I. The Present Simple Tense
- •Present Simple
- •II. The Past Simple Tense
- •III The Future Simple Tense
- •The Present Progressive Tense
- •The "Going To" Form
- •II. The Past Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Progressive Tense
- •I. The Present Perfect Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Tense
- •I. The Ptesent Perfect Progressive Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Progressive Tense
- •I. The Past Simple Passive
- •II Present Simple Passive
- •III. The Future Simple Passive
- •IV. The Present Progressive Passive
- •V. The Past Progressive Passive
- •VI. The Present Perfect Passive
- •VII. The Past Perfect Passive
- •VIII. The Future Perfect Passive
- •The Imperative Mood
- •Modal Verbs can, could
- •May, might
- •Exercise 5
- •Must, to be to, to have to
- •Should, ought to
- •Recapitulation of the modal verbs
- •Conditional Sentences
- •II type
- •III type
- •If it were not for ...
- •If it hadn’t been for ...
- •The modal verbs "could" and "might" in conditional sentences
- •Recapitulation of conditional sentences
- •The Complex Object
- •Indirect Speech
- •Modal verbs in indirect speech
- •Passive voice in indirect speech
- •Conditional sentences in indirect speech
- •Recapitulation of indirect speech
- •Troublesome Verbs
- •The Participle
- •Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •Appendix 3 conditional sentences
Appendix 3 conditional sentences
|
The Main Clause |
Conjunction |
The Subordinate Clause |
The Example |
|
will + Simple Infinitive will + Progressive Infinitive The Imperative Mood |
if unless in case provided that |
The Present Simple The Present Progressive |
I'll be glad if he comes. I'll be seeing you tomorrow unless I'm held up at school. Please phone me in case you can't come in time. We'll give you a refund provided that you show our receipt, in case we don't get you'll get it you’ll get no money |
|
would +Simple Infinitive would + + Progressive Infinitive might/could + + Simple Infinitive might/could + + Progressive Infinitive |
if unless |
The Past Indefinite The Past Subjunctive ("were") |
If they knew about our problems, they would help us out. If you had a thousand dollars, what would you do? If I were you, I wouldn't be so optimistic. If John could be more assertive, he would certainly get the job. If it were not for his stupidity, he wouldn't be in trouble. |
|
would + Perfect Infinitive would + Perfect Progressive Infinitive might/could + + Perfect Infinitive might/could + + Perfect Progressive Infinitive |
if unless |
The Past Perfect |
If Martha hadn't left her glasses at home, she would have seen the notice. If he had been more attentive, he might have heard the announcement. If it hadn't been for the traffic jam, we might have got home in time. |
Note: If it were not for his stupidity, he wouldn't be in trouble. = But for his stupidity, he wouldn't be in trouble.
If it hadn't been for the traffic jam, we might have got home in time. = But for the traffic jam we might have got home in time.