2nd Conditional - Learn English with Papa Teach Me
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Aly, if you were an animal, what would you
be?
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Oh! You'd be a dog
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So that question that Tom just asked me
"If you were an animal, what would you be?"
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That situation is real? or imaginary?
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Of course it's imaginary!
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and for this, for Imaginary situations
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We use the 2nd conditional
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Now what's the form of the 2nd conditional?
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Well it looks like this
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So just remember: This is for Imaginary
situations
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look at the form again
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It has a past verb
with "if"
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But it doesn't mean the situation is in the past
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The Situation's now or in the future, but
imaginary
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So, you see "if" with a past verb, it just
means an imaginary situation
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Happening now or in the future
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So let's imagine something different
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This place is pretty boring, there's
nothing really happening
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Nothing here!
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Ok so let's do this class in a different place!
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I want snow, I want trees, I love Christmas
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Let's go to Norway! Ok so imagine...
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But remember, this situation
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It's imaginary, it's not real!
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I know what you're thinking, Why didn't I
say if I WERE in Norway
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Well you can!
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That's completely fine!
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If you say...
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in a place
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That is called the subjunctive mood
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and the difference is formality
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If you use the subjunctive mood it's
more formal, basically
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however if you just say "if I was...", "if he
she it was..."
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It's more common, and that's what you hear more often
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Basically, in a test use subjunctive mood, it's more correct
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In real life
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its more common that we use "If I was..." "if
he/she/it was..."
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So
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Okay, back to Norway!
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Okay I'm imagining...
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I'd be thinking
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You know it's really cold here!
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and now I want to be some place hot
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Where am I?!
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This is too hot! This is like the desert!
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No!
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okay imagine a different place
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Yep this is exactly what I wanted!
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We're on a beach!
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Yeah we are!
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Second Conditional???
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Yep, Second Conditional!
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Righto
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Now we're ready for the beach!
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Well except one thing
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What?
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If we were on a beach, We'd have some beer
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Beer?
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Beer!
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So if we were on a beach, and we had
beer
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We'd get drunk!
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Cheers!
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So just remember: The form "if" plus a past verb just means "an imaginary situation"
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Happening now or in the future
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Now you know the second conditional, time for a test
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