Second Conditional in English Grammar l with Subtitles Learn Conditionals

So, the second conditional is similar but  different from the first conditional because here  

it's talking about an unlikely or hypothetical  condition, and its probable result. Do you  

guys know what this word means, hypothetical?  Hypothetical means not real or imagined. Right,  

I’m just imagining what would happen. The time is  now, or any other time and the situation is again  

hypothetical, not real, just imagined, so we're  not talking necessarily about real life. What will  

happen? What I will do if something happens? Let's  take a look at how this conditional is different.  

So here in our first clause,  we're using the simple past  

and for our main clause we're using present  conditional or present continuous conditional. So  

what is that in simpler terms? If  this thing happened that thing would  

happen. So here again, just imagining if you went  to bed earlier, you wouldn't be so tired. So,  

this means you didn't go to bed early right. You  are maybe, if you're tired today and I see you,  

if you went to bed earlier you wouldn't be so  tired. So if you had done this thing in the past,  

what would the result be? You wouldn't  be so tired if the weather wasn't so bad,  

we would go to the beach. So here again  just imagining, just hypothetical, not real.  

So, if the weather wasn't so bad, we would go  to the beach. This means ugh the weather is bad,  

so we cannot go to the beach today.  But oh, imagine if the weather wasn't  

so bad, we would go to the beach. Just  imagining right, not real, hypothetical.  

Let's look at some more examples  of the second conditional.  

If I was the president, I would give everyone  more vacation days. Right, this is not real,  

unfortunately I am not the president, or maybe  fortunately I am not the president uh but if I  

was I would give everyone more vacation days.  Again hypothetical, if this thing happened  

if I was the president, then this thing would  happen. I would give everyone more vacation days.  

If you really loved me, you would visit me more  often. So, here we have our past uh if clause. If  

you really loved me, and then our conditional  using would. You would visit me more often.  

If I had more money, I would travel everywhere.  So again, imagining if I had more money,  

I would travel anywhere. I’m sure in an English  class sometime in the past your teacher may have  

asked you hypothetical questions like this. What  would you do if you were president? If I was the  

president, I would da da. What would you do if you  won the lottery? If I won the lottery, I would…  

So this is second conditional;  not real, hypothetical.  

One thing to note, so here in number one I  say; if I “was,” but it is very common to say  

if I “were.” So, this is called the subjunctive  mood. If I were you, I would give up smoking. Or,  

if I were a plan, I would love rain. So you can  use was, but it is correct and very common to say:  

if I were. When we're using this conditional form,  also just like we could for our first conditional,  

we can use modal verbs in the main clause  of this form to change our certainty.  

We might buy a larger house if we had more  money. So, here's our oh oh we're stuck whoops.  

So, uh didn't mean to scribble that out. So  here our if clause: if we had more money,  

we might buy a larger house. So here right,  not real, if we had more money, but we don't,  

but if we did, I can also use might or may words  like this. If I’m not really sure what I would do.  

Oh, if I won the lottery, I might travel to every  country. Or I might do this, I might do that.  

All right so this is our second conditional which  we use to talk about things that are not real  

and we're just imagining. Right,  hypothetical is the word to use for this one.