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 in the chat today i will try to check them live all right i see youtube is ready to go thanks everybody for joining us on youtube facebook i think we're getting connected to you too so while we wait for everybody uh of course a couple of very quick announcements first of all at the bottom of the screen there is this guide to learn english at home if you are interested in studying with us you can find for free uh a link to our beginner level course so you can find this from the link below the 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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 lots coming in fantastic i'll start on youtube uh 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 some are coming in on facebook now please don't flood the chat please don't send the same message over and over and over again make sure everyone can participate please facebook 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 so that is part one part one so let's finish part one and take a short break then we'll go to part two for today okay so if you missed it earlier uh real quickly this banner at the bottom of the screen it says get your guide to learn english at home there is a free beginner level course available at englishclass101.com our team's lovely website so you can 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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 really quickly i won't take a official break just if you missed it before there's a free beginner level course for everybody from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook check it out there's a free as i said beginner level course that you can get and study with us there okay let's go to the last part for today's 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 i'll be back next week of course so please join me again next week next week's topic is here next week uh the date will be october 14th wednesday october 14th at 10 pm eastern standard time that is new york city time please google to find your local time use your google skills 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 so i'll finish there for today thank you as always for joining me live that was super fun uh don't forget to check the link below the video on youtube the description or above the video if you're watching on facebook to get this free beginner level course that you can use to study english with our team uh thanks for liking the video too thanks for liking and sharing the video and for all of your great questions and example sentences i hope that you found something new to practice this week i'll say goodbye there so enjoy the rest of your day enjoy the rest of your week and have a nice weekend i will see you again soon bye

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