Conditionals are used to express both real, likely and unreal situations. As a result, tenses used with them are not flat; they change. That is why the difference between ‘If I arrive’ and ‘If I had ...

When this column took up the grammar of "if"-conditional sentences last week, I emphasized that a good communicator doesn't make bland assertions of truth every time but expresses them simply as ...

'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to' Present tenses Present perfect continuous Quantifiers Phrasals First and zero conditional We talk about unreal or imaginary situations using the second ...