How to use IF...THEN... | First Conditional English Grammar Tense | Go Natural English

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we're focusing today on a conditional tense the first

Conditional but we are not here to just memorize grammar rules. Go natural. English is not about memorizing rules

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So as I mentioned today, we're going to talk about how and when to use the first conditional tense

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Ok, let's dive into the first

Conditional the first thing that I want to say is that we often use this when we're talking about plans

For example, do you want to come to my party?

I'm not sure if it rains I won't come if it doesn't rain

I'll come this is an example of the first conditional so we often use this when we're responding about

Invitations or making plans that might change based on something else

we make the first conditional with if if

It rains

then the subject in this case it then the simple presence in this case rains and then

with another subject and the future tense

So quick important note here most books websites teachers do not tell you about

another way that native speakers often form the first

conditional and that is that we use will to talk about the future and we also use

Going to to talk about the future. So for example, I might say if it doesn't rain I

am

Going to go to your party or if it doesn't rain

I will go to your party or I'll go to your party right because we often use contractions when we're speaking

naturally speaking of which no native speaker is going to say I am

Going to go to your party

I'm sure that was painful to listen to because you probably know that native speakers

Linked sounds together between words and it sounds more like I'm gonna go to your party

So, let's see a few other examples because I love sharing examples

They help us to clearly understand how to use the grammar. For example, if traffic is bad

You'll be late or if it's really loud outside. I won't be able to

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You will be much better at English very soon. I think that's a pretty good example

Okay, let's talk about how the first conditional is different from the zero conditional because in the last English tip that I shared

With you we talked about the zero conditional

So just to quickly recap that we saw that the zero conditional was four facts

Right and we use the simple present for both parts of the sentence

If you want to know more about the zero conditional you can look back at that lesson

So the first conditional is about specific situations and we use the future tense

So it's about possibility things that might or might not happen. It's about possibilities if

This happens now then that will happen in the future or won't happen

So I hope this helps you with the first conditional in the next

Grammar focus English tip because this month is a grammar Palooza here at go natural English

We're gonna look at the second conditional which is more about expressing your doubts

So it'll be interesting to see how to do that. I'll talk more about that the next time

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