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Thu 8 Jul, 2021 11:28 pm
If I win the lottery, I will buy a car.
If I won the lottery, I would buy a car.
Does the first sentence suggest that you have hope of winning the lottery?
Does the second sentence imply that you think you have no or little chance of winning the lottery?
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These “if” conditional sentences can offer a multitude of options. The tense of the opening clause can be combined with the tense of several different verbs.
There are web sites and videos explaining “ if conditional “ sentences in depth.
Do you have ability to access them?
Here’s conditional sentences. The intention is all the same:
If you study, you might learn more.
If you study, you will learn more.
If you study you can learn more.
If you study, you learn more.
If you studied, you would have learned more.