Revision questions: conditionals and unreal tenses

  • When can if be replaced with when in conditional sentences?
  • What is the difference between a real and an unreal situation?
  • What is the difference between real and unreal tenses?
  • Which modals can we use in the main clauses of sentences in the different types of conditionals?
  • Can we use the modals will or would in the if-clause?
  • Why is the sentence If I lied to my parents, they would punish me ambiguous?
  • Which types of conditionals can be mixed?
  • What is the difference between if and in case?
  • Which modals can we use in the different types of conditionals to express that a condition is less likely?
  • When can we invert the subject and auxiliary in the if-clause?
  • What is common in sentences introduced with I wish... and the second and third conditionals?
  • What does wish + would express?
  • When is as if / as though followed by a real tense?

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