English tenses!!

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English tenses!!

Miss_Alel�

English tenses!!

Hi there! I �ve just downloades a fantastic worksheet in which you can find a summary of all english tenses! However something odd caught my attention...

According to this chart... Conditional type 1 is = PP+would+verb(inf), but am i wrong or conditional 1 is = if+ simple present + future (will) ?

Can anybody hel me?

Sorry to be such a dunce!!

Here �s the worksheet http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=157094&modo=comment#comments

1 Mar 2009

Tere-arg

Hi aleli

You are right.
Anyway, I can�t see the worksheet so I guess it has been...deleted ?

Smile

1 Mar 2009

frenchfrog

A link with �comment � in it won �t work. The correct link is http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=157094&

By the way this printable is a copy from http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/tenses

1 Mar 2009

Olindalima ( F )

Great, Frenchfrog, as usual, twice, ... for the correct link and, ... for the stolen worksheet.
I think you have reported it, so, thank you

1 Mar 2009

cheezels

OK ignoring the fact that it was copied from a site... (I have the chart from there too...) can anyone explain/answer the question? I am really curious to know the answer as I am like a grammar sponge at the moment sucking up all the knowledge I can! LOL

I am going to look it up now in "George" my grammar bible...

1 Mar 2009

HARIM

Frenchfrog.

Thanks,Even after over 140 downloads we can still discover that it �s a stolen ws.

(what a pity!this member should have at least corrected the mitakes in the original ws)

aleli,

you are right.There are mistakes in naming the tenses.(conditionals 1/2 and the future perfect progressive)

1 Mar 2009

Isabel L

Hi,

aleli_a is right as far as I know. The tenses in conditional I are: present simple in the if-clause and will-future in the main clause. That �s the basic form although there can be other combinations, but never with would.

Hope it helps

1 Mar 2009

goodnesses

Hi, All

Ignoring the fact is a copy, I can say there is nothing wrong in the WS (Both).

If you are refeing to the last part of the chart ie. CONDITION I simple/progressive and CONDITIONAL II simple/progressive, I think the author means what we can call present and past conditional (would + Inf / would + have + PP) it does not refer to conditional types.
I think it is just a problem of grammatical terminology. Sometime we call this infinitive construction and perfect infinive construction.
Since the refernce to the 3 types of conditional in the beginning of the chart (use of the present simple/simple past/past perfect) is correct.

Try to have a look at the examples they are fine.

Regards

1 Mar 2009