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Conditional sentences
o First conditional: If + present simple, future simple (will + infinitive)
The speaker thinks its POSSIBLE and PROBABLE in the future:
If you buy me the cinema ticket, Ill watch that film with you.
Unless = If not:
Unless you buy me the cinema ticket, I wont watch that film with you.
o Third conditional: If + past perfect, conditional perfect (would have + past participle)
The situation is IMPOSSIBLE and IMPROBABLE because it didnt happen
(hypotheses about the past, regretting something we did, telling somebody off):
If they hadnt missed the bus, they would have arrived on time.
We can invert the sentences WITHOUT the comma: Ill go with you if it doesnt rain.
https://englishful.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/the-passive-voice-introduction)
o We use it in English to give emphasis to the person/thing/etc. that suffers the action
(the direct object in the active voice), putting in at the beginning of the sentence.
o If the person who does the action (the agent in the passive voice) is relevant, we use
by + ______ after the verb in the passive voice.
ACTIVE VOICE:
The police arrested those thieves yesterday.
PASSIVE VOICE:
Those thieves were arrested yesterday.
ACTIVE VOICE:
George R. R. Martin is going to finish the next Game of Thrones novel before Christmas.
PASSIVE VOICE:
The next Game of Thrones novel is going to be finished by George R. R. Martin before Christmas.
Causative passive: