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Hey there I’m Emma from mmmEnglish! I’ve been talking about conditionals a lot lately and this video is no exception but this one is one of the most interesting of all because we’re going to be talking about mixed conditional sentences.

Mixed conditionals are exactly what they sound like, a conditional sentence that mixes two different times in one sentence. That sounds a little tricky but I’m here to go over it with you and to help you practise with me later on in this lesson so don’t worry.

If you had learned how to use mixed conditionals already, you wouldn’t need to watch this lesson.

Check it out. That is a mixed conditional sentence and by the end of this video, you’ll be feeling much more confident about using mixed conditionals as you speak in English. So let’s go!

If you’ve watched some of my previous lessons or perhaps you’ve studied conditionals at school, well you’ll know that the zero conditional is used to talk about facts and things that are generally true.

The first conditional talks about a likely present situation.
The second conditional talks about hypothetical or highly unlikely present or future situations.
And the third conditional is a past situation which didn’t happen.

So these are all useful for talking about situations that relate to actions in isolation in their own time.

So the third conditional relates to the past but mixed conditionals help you to move through time so a past action with a present result. Gets exciting!

As I mentioned earlier, a key idea when we use mixed conditionals is time. But don’t confuse time with verb tense. So, of course, we use different verb tenses to express different times, that’s true but time and tense are not always the same thing.

So if you take a look at a couple of sentences.

I had a dog when I was a child.
She was cleaning all day yesterday.

So are these two sentences using the same verb tense?

This is the past simple and this one is the past continuous. They’re not using the same tense but they are referring to the same time, right? They both take place in the past so they have the same time reference.

And like I said earlier, mixed conditionals are conditional sentences that use two different times in them. They help us to move between two times. So the ‘if’ clause and the main clause in a mixed conditional sentence have different times that work together.

So we take a look at an example.

If I had woken up earlier, I wouldn’t have missed the bus.

So both these clauses take place in the past, right? I’m talking about this morning, yesterday morning or some other morning in the past and the result, that I missed the bus, also happened in the past. So I already missed the bus, I can’t change that now.

So let’s change this sentence a little to make it a mixed conditional. To do that, we need one of the clauses to be in a different time.

So our ‘if’ clause is happening in the past, right? So let’s make our main clause about the present.

If I had woken up earlier, I would be at work already.

I wouldn’t have missed the bus so I would be at work already now, in the present.

So now we’ve got a mixed conditional sentence. One clause refers to a past action and the other refers to the present. See? It’s not as hard as you think once you break it down but it takes practice so let’s keep going!

There are a few different ways that we can do this. You can mix and match several tenses and times together to make them a mixed conditional sentence. But I want to focus on the two most common combinations right?

So a past action and a present result which is just the example that we just looked at and then a present condition and a past result. So remember in both of these sentences we’re talking about something that’s unreal.

In the first, we’re talking about changing a past action and the hypothetical present result that would happen but it can’t happen because we can’t change the past, right?

And in the second, we imagine that the present were different. Now it’s not but if it were then how would the past hypothetically have been different as a result?

It’s a little confusing I know. Let’s keep going.

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past action > present result

So to create the first one we need the past perfect in the ‘if’ clause and the present conditional in the main clause. So if this thing had happened, then that thing would happen.

If I had saved more money, I would own this house.
If you hadn’t taken that job, we would be travelling together.
If they had paid more attention, they wouldn’t be failing in class.

And don’t forget that like all conditionals, you can change the order of the ‘if’ clause and the main clause.

This thing would happen if this thing had happened.

So you can swap the order of the clauses but all of the information is still there.

I would own this house, if I had saved more money.

We still have a hypothetical past action in the ‘if’ clause and the hypothetical present result in the main clause.

present condition > past result

The other common mixed conditional sentence is a present condition and a past result. So this is an unreal present condition to imagine what the result would have been in the past but we’ll never really know because this is imaginary, right?

So imagine if this thing happened then this would have happened.

Now all right let’s talk about this for a minute because we’re talking about a present condition right but we’re using the past simple tense in the ‘if’ clause but that’s not a real past right. This is how we use the second conditional to express a hypothetical present situation.

If I were more outgoing, I would have introduced myself.
If he wasn’t injured, he would have played the game.
If I wasn’t so busy, I would have offered to help.

future action > past result

Now you can also use this same general form to talk about a future action and a hypothetical past result.

Now this is pretty advanced but you’ll see how it can be a useful way of expressing yourself.

Just imagine that tomorrow you had a really important meeting at work. A meeting that you’ve planned and you’ve organised and set it up for the future. So you can’t go out dancing tonight, obviously because you want to be well rested and alert for this meeting. Your boss is gonna be there.

If I didn’t have an important meeting tomorrow, I would have gone out dancing.
If she wasn’t going on holiday next month, she would have asked for a day off.
If you weren’t going on a big hike tomorrow, would you have come on a bike ride today?

So how are you feeling about mixed conditionals now? I always think that it’s easier if you focus less on the complicated grammar tenses and more on the relationships with time.

And the three most commonly used mixed conditional sentences are simply:
– a past action with a present result
– a present condition with a past result
– a future action and the past result

So now that you know all of this, I think it’s time that we practise a little together. So are you ready to put everything that we’ve just been through into practice with a mini quiz?

Good, I knew that you were. Let’s do it!

PRACTICE QUIZ

So I’m gonna start by giving you a few ‘if’ clauses in the past and I want you to write your own present results. So this is where you’ve got to be creative, come up with your answers and add them into the comments below.

So for example. If I had got on that plane…

This is obviously in the past right so to make it a mixed conditional, we need to bring the results into the present in the main clause. So all you have to do is imagine what you would be doing now.

This is the imaginary present right.

If you have gotten on that plane… you could say “I would be in Fiji right now” or “I’d be sipping champagne and watching movies” or “I’d be stuck on a fourteen hour long-haul flight”

Whatever – that’s the fun of an imaginary situation. So now it’s your turn.

1. If I had won the lottery…
2. If she had picked up the phone…
3. If he hadn’t quit his job…

So right now I want you to pause the video and finish these sentences.

Now I’m gonna prompt you with a present ‘if’ clause so that means that your main clause needs to be something different in the past.

Now just be careful that you make sure your main clause is in the past so you could correctly write a different time but then it wouldn’t be a mixed conditional, right?

4. If I were more athletic…
5. If she wasn’t so tired…
6. If I was fluent in English…

So again pause the video and finish these sentences.

Awesome work! Now the last category and you can probably guess where I’m gonna go with this. I’m gonna prompt you with a future ‘if’ clause and you can finish the sentence with a past result in the main clause.

7. If tomorrow wasn’t Monday…
8. If she didn’t have an important exam next week…
9. If I wasn’t moving next month…

Again, pause, take your time, to write your sentences out, add them into the comments below so I can check them.

Grammar lessons like this one can sometimes leave you feeling like your brain has turned to mush. But don’t let these types of sentences scare you, just accept that this is gonna take some time to really understand these sentences how to use them.

Play around with them a little, keep the time and the tenses in mind. Just keep coming back to this lesson and all the conditional videos that I’ve made for you just to review and remind yourself about the difference in how to use them.

And look for these structures. If you’re reading a book, highlight the conditional sentences that you come across and just pause, think about them for a moment, try to understand how the two clauses relate to each other.

If you’ve got any questions at all, then make sure you ask me down in the comments. Share your sentences down there. I always try to give as much feedback as I can and I really hope that this lesson was helpful for you. In fact, if you’ve got a friend or you know someone who would also benefit from watching it, then make sure you share it with them, be a good friend.

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[Update] Examples & Practice | mixed conditionals – NATAVIGUIDES

If you had learned how to use mixed conditionals already, you wouldn’t need to watch this lesson.

Check it out. That is a mixed conditional sentence and by the end of this video, you’ll be feeling much more confident about using mixed conditionals as you speak in English. So let’s go!

So these are all useful for talking about situations that relate to actions in isolation in their own time.

So the third conditional relates to the past but mixed conditionals help you to move through time so a past action with a present result. Gets exciting!

So if you take a look at a couple of sentences.

I had a dog when I was a child.
She was cleaning all day yesterday.

So are these two sentences using the same verb tense?

So we take a look at an example.

If I had woken up earlier, I wouldn’t have missed the bus.

So let’s change this sentence a little to make it a mixed conditional. To do that, we need one of the clauses to be in a different time.

So our ‘if’ clause is happening in the past, right? So let’s make our main clause about the present.

If I had woken up earlier, I would be at work already.

I wouldn’t have missed the bus so I would be at work already now, in the present.

In the first, we’re talking about changing a past action and the hypothetical present result that would happen but it can’t happen because we can’t change the past, right?

And in the second, we imagine that the present were different. Now it’s not but if it were then how would the past hypothetically have been different as a result?

It’s a little confusing I know. Let’s keep going.

past action > present result

So to create the first one we need the past perfect in the ‘if’ clause and the present conditional in the main clause. So if this thing had happened, then that thing would happen.

If I had saved more money, I would own this house.
If you hadn’t taken that job, we would be travelling together.
If they had paid more attention, they wouldn’t be failing in class.

And don’t forget that like all conditionals, you can change the order of the ‘if’ clause and the main clause.

This thing would happen if this thing had happened.

So you can swap the order of the clauses but all of the information is still there.

I would own this house, if I had saved more money.

We still have a hypothetical past action in the ‘if’ clause and the hypothetical present result in the main clause.

present condition > past result

So imagine if this thing happened then this would have happened.

If I were more outgoing, I would have introduced myself.
If he wasn’t injured, he would have played the game.
If I wasn’t so busy, I would have offered to help.

future action > past result

Now you can also use this same general form to talk about a future action and a hypothetical past result.

Now this is pretty advanced but you’ll see how it can be a useful way of expressing yourself.

If I didn’t have an important meeting tomorrow, I would have gone out dancing.
If she wasn’t going on holiday next month, she would have asked for a day off.
If you weren’t going on a big hike tomorrow, would you have come on a bike ride today?

So how are you feeling about mixed conditionals now? I always think that it’s easier if you focus less on the complicated grammar tenses and more on the relationships with time.

So now that you know all of this, I think it’s time that we practise a little together. So are you ready to put everything that we’ve just been through into practice with a mini quiz?

Good, I knew that you were. Let’s do it!

PRACTICE QUIZ

So for example. If I had got on that plane…

This is obviously in the past right so to make it a mixed conditional, we need to bring the results into the present in the main clause. So all you have to do is imagine what you would be doing now.

This is the imaginary present right.

If you have gotten on that plane… you could say “I would be in Fiji right now” or “I’d be sipping champagne and watching movies” or “I’d be stuck on a fourteen hour long-haul flight”

Whatever – that’s the fun of an imaginary situation. So now it’s your turn.

1. If I had won the lottery…
2. If she had picked up the phone…
3. If he hadn’t quit his job…

So right now I want you to pause the video and finish these sentences.

Now I’m gonna prompt you with a present ‘if’ clause so that means that your main clause needs to be something different in the past.

Now just be careful that you make sure your main clause is in the past so you could correctly write a different time but then it wouldn’t be a mixed conditional, right?

4. If I were more athletic…
5. If she wasn’t so tired…
6. If I was fluent in English…

So again pause the video and finish these sentences.

7. If tomorrow wasn’t Monday…
8. If she didn’t have an important exam next week…
9. If I wasn’t moving next month…

Again, pause, take your time, to write your sentences out, add them into the comments below so I can check them.

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Mixed Verb Tenses in English: Conditionals and IF clauses

How many verb tenses can you count in the following sentences? \”If you practice every day, you will improve. But you also need to know that if you didn’t develop good study habits in the past, you might have trouble in the future.\” There are several verb tenses in this excerpt, and they are all mixed together. But complex sentences like these are what make English a very rich and interesting language. In this challenging lesson, we will look at conditional sentences that mix tenses and even use the verb \”will\” in the \”if\” clause. Make sure to do the quiz at http://www.engvid.com/mixedverbtensesinenglishconditionalsandifclauses/ to practice and perfect your understanding of mixed tenses.
TRANSCRIPT
Hi again. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I’m Adam. Today’s lesson is a little bit tricky. It’s grammar, it’s conditionals, but we’re going to look at \”Mixed Conditionals\”. Now, before I get into the different types of ways that you can mix tenses and the conditionals, I want to do a very quick review of the conditionals that most of you learn in your ESL classes or your English… Other English classes, because these are the ones that are most commonly taught, and everybody, all your teachers want you to memorize these structures. The problem is then you might see mixed conditionals in other places, and you get all confused. Okay? I’m not going to get too deep into these, because you can find other good lessons by other engVid teachers who have already covered some of these on the site. I’m just going to do a quick review, and then I’ll get into… Deeper into the mixed conditionals.
So here are the four main types of conditionals you learn: \”If I won the lottery, I’d buy a house.\” So this, just so we are clear, is \”would\”, I’ve contracted it to \”I’d\”. \”If I won\”, I have simple past tense, plus \”would\” in the second clause, in the condition clause, in the result clause. \”If I had known she was coming, I’d have come too.\” Okay? Here I have the past perfect, plus \”would have\” plus PP, past participle verb. Now, these are both unreal, mean… Meaning that they are hypothetical, they are imaginary. This is about a future or present unreal situation. I didn’t win the lottery, I’m not buying a house; this is all just imagination. This is about the past. Now, the reason it is unreal is because I can’t go and change the past. So, this didn’t happen, and so this didn’t happen. This is, again, imagination, but we’re looking at the past. Okay?
\”If you boil water, it evaporates.\” If you notice here, I have simple present verb and simple present verb. This is a real conditional. It means it’s true. Whenever you have a factokay?a result is based on this condition and it’s always true… By the way, \”evaporates\” means becomes steam, it goes away. Right? If you boil water, eventually you have no more water in the pot. So this is a real conditional, always true. Simple present, simple present. Lastly: \”If you study hard, you will pass the test.\” Simple present verb, \”will\”, verb, like future. So, again, this is a real situation, because this is true. If you do this, this will happen as a result. So these are the ones that you mostly learn.
If you have any questions, again, go to www.engvid.com, find the lessons about these that can explain it in more detail. But now we’re going to see other situations, other sentences with \”if\” conditionals that are not like these. Sometimes we can mix tenses, sometimes you can… Sorry. Let me stop myself, here. Sometimes your teachers tell you: \”Never put ‘will’ with the ‘if’ clause.\” Well, what I’m going to show you is that sometimes, yeah, you can. This is the problem with English: There’s always exceptions to the rules. Today we’re going to look at some of those exceptions. Okay? Let’s see what happens.
Okay. So now we’re going to look at a few different types of mixtures, if you want to call it that, with the \”if\” clauses. But before I start to show you these examples, I want you to understand that these mixed conditionals are all about context. You can generally understand what is going on, what the relationship between the two verbs are by looking at the context, looking at the time, looking at the place, looking at the situation that’s going on, and should… It usually should be very clear, but in case you’re wondering how to construct these so you can use them yourselves, I’ll show you with a few examples. Okay? These are in no particular order. They’re just examples, and we’re going to look at them individually.

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Mixed Verb Tenses in English: Conditionals and IF clauses

Using Mixed conditionals – BBC English Class

You’re probably familiar with second conditionals and third conditionals. But what about mixed conditionals? These are a combination of second and third conditionals. Dan explains all in 90 secs. Learn more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upperintermediate/unit8/session1

Using Mixed conditionals - BBC English Class

Mixed Conditionals in English

Mixed conditionals;
Revision of the 2nd and 3rd conditionals;
Introduction of the two mixed types and comparison with the 2nd and 3rd conditionals.

Mixed Conditionals in English

Learn English Grammar: The 4 Conditionals

Do conditionals in English drive you crazy? They’re so easy to get mixed up! There are four conditionals in English grammar, numbered zero through three. So in this lesson I’ll give you an overview of all four, with examples of each. If you watch this video and do the quiz at https://www.engvid.com/learnenglishgrammarthe4conditionals/ you will have a better understanding of conditionals in English. (That last sentence is an example of the first conditional!)

Learn English Grammar: The 4 Conditionals

MIXED CONDITIONALS – English Grammar Lesson – Mixed Verb Tenses in If-Clauses – Advanced Grammar

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Transcript:
Hello and welcome back. This
lesson is all about mixed
conditionals. It comes from a
request by three viewers –
Przemek, Nihar (from Odisha,
India) and Olivia Ornelas.
Before we start, if you want
to request a lesson, just
leave a comment. In your
comment, tell me your name
and I will mention you in the
video.
Alright, so in this lesson, I
will teach you about mixed
conditionals in both real and
unreal situations (unreal
means imaginary). There are
exercises in this lesson for
you to understand and
practice. OK first, let’s
start with the most basic
type of conditional – the
real conditional.
Take a look at this example:
“If it rains on Saturday,
we’ll cancel the picnic.” So
what do you understand by
that? Well, you know that
there’s a picnic planned for
Saturday, and if it rains, we
cannot go on the picnic, so
we’ll cancel it.
This is the most common type
of conditional: on the
condition side – we call it a
condition clause, you have
‘if’ plus the subject plus
the verb in the present
simple tense. So, you have
‘if’ and ‘it rains’ which is
present simple. On the result
side (in the result clause),
you have ‘subject’ plus
‘will’. So – ‘we’ll cancel’
(or we will cancel) ‘the
picnic.’ This is called a
real conditional. It’s also
called the first conditional
but the number is not
important – what’s important
is that it talks about a real
situation – a situation that
is possible.
So about mixed conditionals?
Well, the term ‘mixed’ just
means that a sentence is in a
different form – not the
usual form. So, you could say
“If it rains on Saturday,
we’ll have to cancel the
picnic.” (so instead of will
plus the main verb, here you
have ‘will have to’) or you
could say “If it rains on
Saturday, could you bring
some umbrellas?” or maybe I
just saw the weather forecast
on the news and I say “How
are we going to have a picnic
if it rains on Saturday?”
These are all correct, and
they’re some examples of
mixed real conditionals.
Remember: we say that they’re
mixed because they’re not in
the common form.
OK, let’s do a small exercise
with this. Here are some
sentences. But I’ve jumbled
them up. Stop the video, try
to put them in the right
order, then play the video
again and check. Alright,
number one is “If you don’t
mind, could you speak a
little more slowly, please?”
Number two is “If Rob wants
to get into a top university,
he needs to work harder.” And
number three is “When you
leave the house, remember to
lock the front door.” In
conditional sentences, it’s
always OK to put the if
clause last – if you did
that, no problem.
OK, notice, in number three –
you have ‘when’ instead of
‘if’. The difference is that
‘if’ means something may
happen or it may not happen –
so “If you leave the house,”
would mean you may or may not
leave the house. But ‘when’
expresses the idea that you
are going to leave the house
(I’m sure), and when you
leave the house, remember to
lock the front door. So you
can see here that these are
all mixed real conditionals –
they all talk about real
situations but they’re in
different forms.
Let’s now move on and talk
about unreal conditionals.
What do I mean by unreal?
Unreal refers to situations
that are imaginary. Take
these two sentences: “If I
win the lottery, I will quit
my job.” and “If I won the
lottery, I would quit my
job.” You will recognize the
first sentence as a real
conditional. So imagine that
I have bought a lottery
ticket. And the results are
coming out tomorrow, so I
have my fingers crossed, I
hope I win. And if I win,
I’ll go into my boss’s office
and say “I quit”. So you have
‘if’ and present simple in
the condition, and ‘will’ in
the result.

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past action > present result

present condition > past result

future action > past result

PRACTICE QUIZ

[Update] Examples & Practice | mixed conditionals – NATAVIGUIDES

past action > present result

present condition > past result

future action > past result

PRACTICE QUIZ

Mixed Verb Tenses in English: Conditionals and IF clauses

Using Mixed conditionals – BBC English Class

Mixed Conditionals in English

Learn English Grammar: The 4 Conditionals

MIXED CONDITIONALS – English Grammar Lesson – Mixed Verb Tenses in If-Clauses – Advanced Grammar

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