Mastering English Conditionals and Grammar Rules

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Conditionals and Sentence Transformation

You will not be allowed to go out if you don't eat up your dinner.
Unless you eat up your dinner, you will not be allowed to go out.
Nobody will help you if you don't ask for help.
Unless you ask for help, nobody will help you.
We didn't buy the tickets in advance, so we missed the concert.
If I had bought the tickets in advance, I wouldn't have missed the concert.
Michael doesn't study that subject because his school doesn't offer it.
If the school offered that subject, Michael would study it.
I will phone your parents if your behavior doesn't improve.
Unless your behavior improves, I will phone your parents.
“Don't touch the match or you will burn your finger.”
If you touch the match, you will burn your finger.
Edward married Helen because she was rich and famous.
If Helen hadn't been rich and famous, Edward wouldn't have married her.
Sophie has a lot of problems because she didn't pay attention.
If Sophie had paid attention, she wouldn't have a lot of problems.
If this company doesn't give me my money back, I'll make a complaint.
Unless this company gives me my money back, I will make a complaint.
We didn't bring money, so we didn't buy a present.
If we had brought the money, we would have bought the present.

-able: Affordable, comfortable, dependable, washable, reliable, enviable, preventable.
-al: Accidental, exceptional, national, occasional, global.
-ful: Beautiful, fanciful, hopeful, useful, meaningful.
-ive: Attractive, creative, expressive, responsive, offensive.
-less: Hopeless, jobless, penniless, tasteless.
-ous: Adventurous, dangerous, famous, mischievous, hazardous, disastrous, mountainous.
-y: Breezy, squeaky, thirsty, woolly, rainy, chewy.
-ible: Accessible, indestructible, invisible, compatible.

Ball sports: Basketball, handball, netball.
-ing sports: Bowling, surfing, swimming, snowboarding.
Racing and combat: Horse racing, wrestling (lucha libre).
Winter and others: Ski jump, snowboarding, speed skating, figure skating, bobsleigh, racing driver.

I wish is equivalent to If only. The tense shifts are: will/would, present/past, and past/past perfect.

I can't stand when you play drums (present). → I wish you didn't play drums (past).
You didn't come and it had been... → I wish you had come (past perfect).
If only you didn't play drums (past) / If only you had come (past perfect).

I'd prefer to = I'd rather (preferiría)

It's (high) time (ya es hora)