Basic English Grammar Would in 2nd Conditional Sentences
hey my name is alicia and in this week’s
lesson we are going to practice
using would in second conditional
sentences so this type of conditional is
for example
a sentence like if i were you i would
do something so in today’s lesson we’re
going to practice making positive
sentences
negative sentences and we’re going to
practice making
questions all of these will feature
would or
wouldn’t so i hope that everyone can get
some good practice
and of course uh feel free to send your
example sentences
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this is what we are going to practice
today
first i’m going to talk about using
would
in positive statements positive
statements
then i’m going to talk about using it in
negative
statements and finally we’re going to
practice making questions yes or no
questions
and information questions so today’s
lesson
is going to use a lot of sample
sentences
and i think probably a lot of you will
ask about
the differences between different types
of conditional
so i want to focus today on second
conditional sentences
and the first thing i want to focus on
uh is a very common question we’ll talk
about in part one
if i was or if i were the short answer
is if i were
so let’s begin first would in second
conditional
positive statements positive statements
so
we’re going to see this pattern
in each part of today’s lesson
that is uh this if plus
simple past tense part in one part of
the sentence
and would plus the infinitive
in the other part of the sentence so
simple past here
means we use a simple past tense verb
in the if part of the sentence
then this infinitive means we use the
basic
infinitive like the dictionary form of
the verb in the would
part of the sentence so if simple past
would and infinitive also you can
switch the order of these two so i’ll
show you some examples of that
a reminder this note here in blue is a
reminder
second conditional expresses situations
or conditions that are very
unlikely or are
impossible so we just want to imagine a
situation
so this is a one of the key differences
with
other types of conditionals with second
conditional
there’s almost zero chance no chance
it’s impossible
or there’s a very very small chance of
the condition or the situation so we
just want to
imagine that so we use would
to express that so let’s look at some
examples and if you have an example
please feel free to send it in the chat
in part one we’re going to focus on
making positive
statements okay so let’s get started
let’s look at some examples and see
uh what’s happening in these sentences
first example here is this one
if i lost my job i would find
a new one if i lost my job i’d find a
new one
that’s at native speed so what’s
happening in this sentence
here we see exactly this pattern if
i lost my job this is my
if clause it uses simple past tense yeah
lost so lost is the past tense form
of lose yeah so if i lost my job
again very low chance of this happening
hopefully
a very low chance of this happening then
we want to imagine our action
in this situation i would
find a new one i would find a new one
so um quickly just to show this matches
i would
find infinitive find is right here this
is my verb to find
i want to mention a very common mistake
in these sentences sometimes learners
use will
here and will is incorrect if i lost my
job
i will find a new one is incorrect you
cannot use will
instead of would in this situation we
use would
to express unreal things that are not
real and this is an imagined situation
we’re just
imagining the possibility here so we
cannot use will in this sentence please
use wood here
okay um that’s one point also
another very common mistake i sometimes
see
is learners put wood here
if i would lost my job or something like
that
we cannot use wood in the if clause so
please be careful make sure wood goes
in your main claws yeah okay i’m looking
for your example sentences wow there are
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babna says if i fail uh okay
so again we’re practicing positive
statements with second conditional
first thing if i failed at bingo
so make sure you have simple past in
your
if clause yeah uh khan maldi says i
would travel
all over the world if i had enough money
great great great
so if i failed past tense past tense
verb there
uh babna okay um
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uh shah says if i didn’t uh
move to the usa i would go to turkey
okay
okay uh all right interesting
if i were less shy i would be with my
crush this fatima ooh
good one good example sentence okay some
interesting ones
fantastic let’s continue to the next
example sentence
this has one of today’s key points
this example sentence begins with if i
were you
if i were you so a lot of people have
asked me
uh over the years and actually this is a
question for native speakers
too is it if i were you or if i was you
the correct correct correct answer is
were we should use were in this pattern
however native speakers very very often
use
was here you’ll hear it in music like
lots and lots of song lyrics use that we
use it in everyday conversation
so it’s not going to be a problem
if you use was here but if you want to
be 100
correct all the time use if i were you
if i were you in this pattern
so yes we use this simple past so when
we think of that we say i was
right but we use this uh were in this
pattern so please
take a note of that for today’s lesson
and then we follow this with the same
wood and
infinitive pattern yeah i would eat
less junk food if i were you i would eat
less junk food at native speed this
sounds like if i were you i would eat
less junk food
that’s what it sounds like okay
so this is giving some advice if i were
you if i were you
advice now let’s take a look at some
positive example sentences
that uh switch this order so first we’ll
use
would and then we’ll use the if clause
let’s take a look
first he would be more successful
if he spent more time working
he would be more successful if he spent
more time working
so in this sentence i swapped
the order so the wood part comes first
he would be is my infinitive verb
he would be more successful
this is another pattern you see
commonly in these types of sentences
this comparative more successful what
does that mean
more successful than he is now
but we drop the compared the full
comparative he would be more successful
than he is now
is what it means but we just say he
would be
more successful then we have this if
clause
if he spent spent so spent
is the simple past form of spend time
spend time we’re using the past form
spent
more time working he would be more
successful
if he spent more time working at native
speed this sentence sounds like he’d be
more successful if he spent more time
working
so we reduce this wood to a
d sound he’d heed he would
okay let’s look at the last one then we
would cook
more often if we had more time
we would cook more often if we had more
time again
cook is my infinitive verb here more
often
than we do now
if we had more time so that means we
don’t have very much time or we don’t
have enough time
but if we did we would do this
another point i want to make the last
point here
is about punctuation yeah this little
mark right here this is a comma
yeah if i lost my job comma or if i were
you
comma you’ll notice in these two there’s
no comma
after he would be more successful we do
not use a comma
in these cases use your comma after
the if clause at the beginning of a
sentence
if the if clause is not at the beginning
of the sentence
like these two no comma don’t use a
comma there
okay all right
deborah says isn’t this similar to using
dependent and independent clauses in
terms of like comma use yeah
um so the ways that we connect uh
dependent and independent clauses yeah
okay uh oh some examples oh some
examples are coming in on youtube uh
i would be richer if i
worked more okay so this is a common
issue
i’m seeing in the examples you’re
sending in the chat
many people are sending examples but
they forget
use simple past tense not your ing
form not your present tense uh
don’t use infinitive here simple past
tense if
i worked more simple past tense verb
in the if clause there okay
gently says she would be more popular if
she spent
more time on live streams okay
um sarita says if i lost my house key
i would have to break my window okay
good
good all right very nice example
sentences okay
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boom we talked about positive statements
just now next we’re going to practice
negative statements so we’re going to
practice would
not so let’s go to part two
okay negative statements part two for
today
here we go so you’ll see for
negative statements with wood we have
this same
pattern we practiced with positive
statements yeah
if simple past so this part is the same
yeah
however we use would
not in the main clause or wouldn’t so
most naturally wouldn’t wouldn’t the
reduced form
would and not together makes wouldn’t
so if simple past would not
infinitive okay so this is the only
change
we have just this little baby change so
let’s practice
uh negative statements and let’s look at
what they mean
what they’re saying here okay so
first one if i won the
lottery if i won the lottery
i wouldn’t spend all the money
if i won the lottery i wouldn’t spend
all the money
so again my if clause follows the same
pattern we practiced in part one yeah
one
is the simple past verb of win the
simple past tense form of
to win is one i won the lottery maybe
some of you don’t know the lottery the
lottery is a
contest it’s a chance game so you buy a
ticket
with numbers if your numbers on the
ticket match
the contest numbers you win a lot of
money
that’s called a lottery lottery so it’s
a money game
a chance game to win money so
this sentence expresses if i won
the lottery so if i got a lot of prize
money
i would not spend
all the money i wouldn’t spend all the
money
so maybe i would save it i would invest
it and so on
so we use this negative would not to
express that
okay let’s go to the next one i don’t
see
questions coming yet so let’s go to the
next one oh sorry i erased
i erased part of my word i’ll fix it in
blue really quickly
my thumb erased my h okay so
example sentence two here if he bought
a new camera he wouldn’t
sell his old one if he bought a new
camera
he wouldn’t sell his old one so again
simple past tense verb here if he bought
so
by present tense or infinitive
bot simple past tense if he bought
a new camera he wouldn’t sell
his old one so again wouldn’t is the
reduced
form of wood not native speed this
sentence sounds like
if he bought a new camera he wouldn’t
sell his old one
so we’re again expressing something in
this case
that would not happen so an unreal uh an
unreal situation
again this is unlikely if you bought a
new camera or if i won the lottery
there’s a low
chance of these things but we want to
talk about our actions
in in those unreal situations
okay okay some examples are coming in
i’m looking for negative let’s practice
making negative
statements now uh sari says
if i go shopping okay so again if i
simple past tense if i went shopping
if i went shopping i wouldn’t spend all
my money
so that’s a key point so so many of you
today
need to work on this simple past point
with this grammar here use simple past
uh what’s the difference between should
and would say shima uh well
there are many but should we use we use
in many cases for advice
uh we don’t use should uh we can’t
replace
should and would uh in these sentences
though um
okay uh if i felt sick says jesus if i
felt sick
i wouldn’t go to work very nice very
nice example sentence if i
felt sick i wouldn’t go to work perfect
example sentence very nice job okay
let’s go to uh the next one so again
just as the same way as positive
statements
we can swap the order so the wood part
comes first and the if part comes second
in our sentence
so for example i wouldn’t get a pet
until i had extra time and money
if i were you if i were you
so i included this example sentence
with this in parentheses right here if i
were you
so this is my if clause yeah if i were
you
i wouldn’t get a pet until
i had extra time and money
so this is a common advice
pattern so in this case a negative
advice pattern
however native speakers often times we
drop if i were you because sometimes
it’s very
clear the advice is clearly for the
other person
we’re imagining if i were you in cases
where it’s very clear
you’re talking about the other person’s
experience you can drop
this part like i wouldn’t get a pet
until i had extra time and money
in in uh in some situations it’s very
clear
if i were you is implied so that’s why i
have this here
if i were you okay let’s look at one
more example
of this another negative example i
wouldn’t
quit my current job until i
found a new one if i were you again if i
were you
i wouldn’t quit quit so this quit
quit the verb quit is the same in uh the
infinitive form
and simple past tense so quit there’s no
change
i wouldn’t quit my current job
my current job means the job i have now
the job i have now is my current job
i wouldn’t quit my current job until i
found
a new one okay
all right so i’m looking for your
examples
now um
let’s see luis on youtube says is it
okay to say this if my team
lost the game i would never watch them
again yes that’s correct
that’s a very strong statement if my
team lost the game i would
never watch them again so like i would
never watch them
play again that is correct yes yes
diego says i wouldn’t spend cash on
a new iphone if i were you very nice
very nice
okay very nice examples um
september says if i spoke new
information to her she would not
know all about it let’s see maybe if i
let’s see hmm i’m not sure what that one
is trying to say
can you think of a different way to say
it and i’ll try to check it again
i’m not quite sure what that one’s
saying okay uh
time’s going quickly so let’s uh stop
there for part
two negative statements and then we’ll
go to questions to finish
today’s lesson a few more examples so
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lesson so quickly
because i’m running out of time as
always uh
let’s go to making questions
so i want to finish today uh
by helping you um practice a couple
different patterns
for uh questions second conditional
questions so in this last part we’re
going to practice
yes or no questions and information
questions so let’s take a look
first our yes or no pattern to make a
simple yes or no question
again we have this same pattern we
practiced in today’s lesson
in all the parts of today’s lesson if
simple past
okay so this is the same then
would or wouldn’t and the infinitive
to make a question so that means we can
make this
with our voice we can make these kinds
of questions just with
our voice using upward intonation
or example if you got a new
job in a different city
would you move so if you
got a new job in a different city
so here’s my simple past tense verb get
becomes
got in simple past tense if you got a
new job in a different city
would you move so different
from the positive and negative sentences
we practiced in part one
and part two when we make our question
we have this subject
right here would you mu and of course
these don’t have to match you in this
case it’s you
and you but we have this before our verb
would you move would you move so again
we
cannot use will hear will is incorrect
to use because this
is an unreal situation if you got a new
job in a different city
would you move okay
let’s go to the next example with yes or
no
this one uses a negative i’ll explain
why
in just a moment if your friend
forgot their wallet wouldn’t you lend
them money
this is lend len so to give someone
something
for a short time if your friend forgot
their wallet wouldn’t you lend them
money
so why is this negative why didn’t i say
wood here actually wood is correct what
is correct would you lend them money
that’s also totally correct so why did i
use a negative here
negatives we use a negative in a pattern
like this
especially in these unreal situations
these imagine situations when we expect
a positive answer so we expect
the other person is going to agree with
us
so in this case it’s like if your friend
forgot their wallet
of course you would lend them money
right
that’s what this is expressing but we
use
wouldn’t to do that very quickly and
efficiently
wouldn’t you lend them money so it’s
like saying
you would do this wouldn’t you right
isn’t that so
so we use this negative to do that
okay um all right
i see a couple of examples um
salma on youtube says if you had time
would you come with me
good good good good so like that’s for
like a party invitation
you could use that if you had time would
you come with me
um seema on facebook says if i need
so again simple past tense everybody a
point for everybody today
simple past tense verb if i needed your
help
uh could you help me or would you help
me
actually good point at sema’s comments
seem sima’s expression says would you
like to
help me remember would you like to
is a um is a different
pattern would you like to is like a like
an offer
right you’re making an invitation so
that sounds weird
in that sentence because it’s a request
like if if you had time
would you help me you’re actually asking
for someone’s like
help you’re not offering them something
so think about um that the difference of
wood we don’t really use wood
nah from time to time we use would you
like to
sort of patterns with this but not so
common
let’s see um aditi says if you
uh were let’s see or if you were offered
a position as president would you accept
would you accept no okay
all right uh okay time’s going quick so
let’s continue
let’s continue to the other uh type of
question
information questions so uh this is when
we need
like who or what or where or when
information from the other person how do
we make that kind of question
with second conditional again
same pattern if simple past again simple
pass
for everybody this is our focus point
for today
then before we use would or wouldn’t
we use our wh question so who
what where when and so on so this is the
change
from this question pattern here
so let’s look at some examples
if you had one million dollars
what would you buy so what
this is the information i want to get i
want to know the
objects so what would you buy again we
cannot use will here
this as well simple past tense not if
you have
not if you have if you have is incorrect
if you had
1 million dollars what would you buy
okay and final example
if you had to move
to another country where
would you go if you had to move
to another country where would you go
okay so here is my wh question
before would and my simple past tense
in my if clause if you had to move to
another country
where would you go okay
um all right i’m looking for your
example sentences
uh shang on facebook xiang says if you
had lots of money
where would you go perfect nice question
very nice question
okay someone says look at my answer i
don’t know i can’t see your answer there
are many
many questions many sentences coming in
uh babna says if you had so babna
especially for you this is your key
point to practice this week uh your
example sentences
need to use simple past tense on youtube
so i’ve seen many of your sentences come
in
use change your verb so if you had
10 boyfriends what would you do oh my
gosh that sounds awful
okay if you could go
anywhere where would you choose nice
yeah so you can upgrade
if you could go anywhere where would you
choose
very nice example sentence on youtube
okay uh someone
bruno said point about the video know
your verbs ah
we’ve already made all of those so um
if you had more time what would you do
galileo on youtube if you had more time
or if you had enough time
what would you do so very close
what is your wh question what
would you do don’t forget your wood
in that pattern okay that sounds great
nito says if you worked right now what
would you
work on hmm maybe if you had a job
now what would you do maybe that’s a
maybe that’s a more natural question
okay
shima if you were invisible what would
you do
if you were invisible invisible as an
adjective
very creative example sentences
everybody that’s funny that’s funny
okay i have to finish up there for today
i am late as always oh my gosh
so we’ll finish there fantastic example
sentences everybody so that’s today’s
key point
for everyone please remember to use
simple past
tense in your if clauses here are
today’s lesson boards
so in red the red color at the top
of each board is the pattern to practice
so please please please use simple past
tense everybody
simple past tense there you can take a
picture of this so that you can study
this later
and practice your awesome example
sentences
okay um so i’ll finish there for today
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um next week i’m going to talk about how
to make
future tense questions future tense
questions
so i know many learners are used to
like answering questions we answer
questions i’m going to or i will
and so on but i know many learners
forget to practice
making their own questions so next week
we’re going to practice
making questions in the future tense
so i hope that you join me again next
week to do that
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