We can follow the same pattern in other conditional structures to communicate the certainty of the effect in the main clause (first conditional). The first conditional type ‘If’ section of clause ‘Effect’ section showing… … certain effect...
Narration: Let’s consider the following sentence. Here, the writer believes that the government is highly likely to increase taxes (we know this from the use of 1st conditional). The use of will in the main clause tells us that the writer is certain that the effect of...
Narration: Conditional clauses. As you have seen, there are five common types of conditional sentence. Conditional sentences are made up of two clauses; the ‘if’ clause and the main clause. When we start the sentence using ‘if’, then the two clauses are split by a...
