🔗 Conditional Mood

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📘 Définition

The conditional mood is used to express an action that depends on a condition, a hypothesis, a wish, advice, or a polite request.

✏ Exemple

If I had more time, I would travel more. • I would like to visit Canada. • Could you help me?

🧠 À retenir

If + past tense → conditional

✅ Points clés

  • • The conditional often expresses a condition.
  • • It can express wishes and dreams.
  • • It is used for giving advice.
  • • It makes requests more polite.
  • • It frequently appears in sentences with 'if'.

❌ Erreurs fréquentes

  • • Using the conditional directly after 'if'.
  • • Confusing the future tense and the conditional.
  • • Forgetting that the clause introduced by 'if' usually uses the past tense.

💡 Astuce

Remember: 'If + past tense → conditional'.