conjunctions – Enguroo Online English School

The Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous are often among the most challenging tenses for English learners. They can be difficult to master, which is why this article takes a closer look at how they work. We’ll explain when and how to use each tense, highlight the key differences between them, and provide plenty of exercises to help you practice with confidence in our next article.

We’ve already covered the basics in our Past Forms overview article, but these two tenses deserve a more detailed explanation of their own. So, let’s dive in.

“Award-winning film star Grace Kelly **had been acting** on stage and in television for 3 years before she made her first Hollywood movie. By the age of 26, she **had given up** her film career to live as a royal princess in Monaco.”

A conditional* is a sentence, often starting with “if” or “unless,” in which one half expresses something which depends on the other half. Apart from “if” and “unless,” we can use the following conjunctions to start a conditional:

when (when it means the same as “if”)
in case (more formal than “if”)
provided (that) (more formal than “if”)
as long as

*Note that a conditional is not the same as a condition. A condition is an arrangement that must exist before something else can happen. For example, “One of the conditions in the contract is that we don’t build on the land.” A conditional, on the other hand, is a specialized linguistic term that describes a type of sentence.

There are a few types of conditionals: zero, first, second, third, and mixed. In this post, we’ll look at the first 3 types, analyzing what they mean, how they are formed, and practicing using them. Make sure you subscribe to this blog to not miss future articles about the other types of conditionals. And now, without further ado, let’s dive into the topic of 0, 1st, and 2nd conditionals.

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Zero, First & Second Conditionals