When this column took up the grammar of "if"-conditional sentences last week, I emphasized that a good communicator doesn't make bland assertions of truth every time but expresses them simply as ...

What is a conditional sentence? Conditionals are structures which express a situation and the possible results. If it rains, I'll stay inside and watch a film. Use the zero conditional to express ...

We use the third conditional when we want to imagine a different past to that which actually occurred. In this episode of the flatmates, Sophie says the following to Alice. "We wouldn't have had ...