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hi everybody my name is Alisha today I'm
going to talk about if clauses so if
clauses are used in a variety of
different sentence patterns we use them
to do a variety of different things as
well so today I'm going to give kind of
an introduction into a few cases where
you can use if clauses so let's get
started okay first I want to introduce
two basic patterns for using if clauses
if clauses can come at the beginning of
a sentence and can be followed by a main
Clause I'll explain this a little more
later so we can begin with an if
statement and end with the main
statement or the opposite is also
possible first a main Clause followed by
the if clause both are okay a few things
I want to talk about today are how to
use some of these sentences we can use
if Clause sentences these kinds of
patterns for making plans and planning
questions so by this I mean questions
about plans and all of these include a
specific condition introduced by the if
statement so I'll explain a little more
in just a moment so we can use these for
making plans talking about plans asking
questions about plans we can use these
for talking about our future activities
so potential activities in the future we
can use it for talking about past
potential so things different in the
past an action done differently in the
past and the potential different outcome
in the future this is a very complex
grammar point I think but this is very
very useful okay finally we can use them
to talk about advice and to give
recommendations as well to ask for and
give recommendations actually so this is
a very very useful kind of sentence and
I want to share a couple ways that you
can use the
as well as a couple grammar points
inside the sentences especially in the
main clause that I hope you can use to
make these kinds of statements and to
make these kinds of questions so let's
take a look okay first I want to look at
if clauses so if clauses they begin with
this if statement so we use an if Clause
to express a condition a condition
meaning some possibility or some
potential so for example if it's sunny
tomorrow if it's sunny tomorrow if the
weather is sunny tomorrow
blah blah blah so we use if at the
beginning of the if Clause to introduce
our condition that's going to lead us
into the main clause so in our main
Clause the main Clause can express a
result of potential result it can
express a recommendation it can express
a question so there are a lot of
different things we can do with the main
Clause and a lot of different types of
grammar we can use so I want to look at
a few examples here let's look at this
first sentence which I already talked
about this one if it's sunny tomorrow
for example I'll go to the beach I'll go
to the beach here I have my if
expression my if Clause the condition is
the weather if it's sunny tomorrow I
have here I'll go to the beach you'll
note that I've used aisle I will because
in this case it sounds like the speaker
has just made the decision maybe you've
seen the video we did about the
difference between will and going to so
when we use will it's often used in
times when we've just made a decision
during the conversation so here if it's
sunny tomorrow I'll go to the beach
please be careful however do not use
will in this sentence in this part of
the sentence for example some people say
if it will be sunny tomorrow it's not
correct we cannot use will here we need
to use will in the main Clause if it's
sunny I'll go to the beach please be
cautious here so meaning this sentence
means if the weather is
tomorrow my plan I just decided is to go
to the beach let's look at one more
sentence that is similar if you pass the
test here is my condition if you pass
the test here you'll get a certification
you'll get so once more you can see I've
used will hear in the contracted form
you will get a certification if you pass
the test so keep in mind as I said
before we can swap we can reverse the
sentence patterns and the sentence
meaning remains the same so just please
be careful if you're using we'll make
sure it's in your main clause not in
your if clause let's take a look at
something a little bit different here I
have if we got approval for the project
if we got so here you'll see it's not
the present tense if we got approval for
the project this is the past participle
form here if I got approval or sorry if
we got approval for the project we would
begin on Monday so this is a potential
situation this is a situation you can
see I've used the past participle here
and would in the main Clause by changing
the tense of my verb I change the
potential of the situation this is a
sentence we might use when making a
proposal so if we got approval for the
project in the future in theory so
meaning impossibility this is not
certain it's not in my control now but
if this were the case if I got the
approval for the project I would we
would begin on Monday this is a future
potential situation something that is
potentially I'm potentially capable or
we are potentially able to do but it has
not been decided yet in these cases we
need to use would in the main clause
okay so let's take a look at the next
sentence here similar to the previous
sentence I talked about so the sentence
the if clause here is if
I hired you for the job you can see the
verb here is also different as we talked
about in the previous sentence if I
hired you for the job you would get
$50,000 a year so once more this is a
future potential sentence and we know
that because of the verbs that are
chosen if I hired you we use the past
participle here we need to apply would
in the main clause to show the future
potential of this situation so please be
careful we've talked about two types of
if clause statements now let's go to one
more yet one more example of how to use
this grammar this is a past potential
and a an a resulting possible outcome
from a past situation so let's look at
the if clause first so if they had left
the house earlier they would have been
on time so here once more you can see
I've got if they had left the house
earlier if they had left
I've got had here so I've we we need to
use half or had in the past tense here
plus the verb and then again we use this
would have been on time we have created
a more complex grammar sentence this
shows if something had been different in
the past a different outcome would have
resulted we need to use would plus our
have been for example in this case let's
take a look at one more sentence if I
had studied a little more here's our
verb phrase if I had studied so I did
not study very much if I had studied a
little more I would have passed the test
here I've mentioned to might is also
possible
maybe the speaker doesn't know for sure
the definite outcome in this case so we
can use wood to express certainty might
to express a lower level of certainty I
might have passed the test I would have
passed the test and again we have the
verb have
and in this case pass passed the test as
well so you can see the grammar becomes
progressively more complex in these
situations the last ones I want to talk
about just two more are recommendations
and questions so you can use an if
clause to introduce your condition like
if you go to Paris for example here in
your main Clause you can give a
recommendation like you should in this
case I've used should you should visit
the Louvre or go to the Louvre or try
some food something like that you can
use a recommendation expression in your
main clause here the final thing I want
to talk about is making a question in
your main clause for example if it rains
this weekend what do you want to do so
this is a situation where you're looking
for the listeners opinion what do you
want to do you can use an expression
like a question what do you want to do
what do you think we should do in your
main clause
to do that okay so those are a few
different ways that you can use if
clauses to create a variety of different
expressions in different statements so
we've talked about quickly about a few
examples of each of these so give them a
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