We know the zero conditional and we know the first conditional. We know the second conditional and we
know the third conditional! How do we know them? Because you Toby made fantastic videos about every
single one of them! Yes! Yes I did. But do we know about mixed conditionals? Mixed conditionals?
But why would you want to do that!? That is a great question, Toby! You are so intelligent!
My name is Toby, this is SMASH English and here is everything you need to know about
mixed conditionals for the B2 First Cambridge exam!
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Oh, Johnny! I miss you so much! Why did I let you go!? I'm never gonna find a man like Johnny again!
"I am currently waiting for my exam score and yet here I am just to see how Monica
is doing.". "Love Monica. A lovely girl I have never seen!".
"Oh, Monica she's so fit! I'm gonna slip into her DMs for sure.". I am beautiful! I knew I
was beautiful all along! Honestly, guys, I mean look at me! It's so obvious! Hello...
Why are you so happy? Hey Bruce! I'm beautiful! All of these people say so! Oh I see! So, uh,
you found loads of guys that like the beard? If I hadn't read all of these comments
I would be upset but honestly Bruce I don't care what you think. Yeah, I'm an internet celebrity
now! Yeah, yeah... because of three comments? Yeah, sure, sure. Wow! Monica just used a mixed
conditional! This is so exciting! If I hadn't read all of these comments I would be upset.
Let's take a closer look then at the grammar! Yes! We love grammar. Grammar grammar grammar! We have
our two clauses: our condition clause beginning with IF and our results clause. What conditional
is our IF clause? We have IF plus the PAST PERFECT so this is the condition clause of the third
conditional. What is the function of the third conditional? To talk about an imaginary past. So
this IF clause refers to an imaginary past. Let's now look at our result clause. We have SUBJECT
plus WOULD plus the INFINITIVE. What conditional has this structure in the result clause?
The second conditional! What is the function of the second conditional?
To talk about an imaginary present or future. In this sentence then we have an imaginary past
condition with an imaginary present result. Of course we can change the clause order and
it doesn't change the meaning so have fun! Change that clause order, baby! Yeah! And that is why we
use this mixed conditional: to talk about imaginary past situations with imaginary present
results. Wow, Toby that is so absolutely fascinating! If you hadn't explained that
I wouldn't know it now. That's what you're saying at home watching this video... Subscribe!
Bye! Let's look at some more examples! Yo, Toby! Oh hi mate! What do you do? I teach English.
Really? Wow! At university or school? Like, you teach english literature or something?
No, no, no. I teach the language. Oh that's embarrassing. If you had studied more you
would have a better job now, wouldn't you? Eh? Oh... What a horrible thing to say! What about
some nicer examples? If I had missed my train I wouldn't be here. If my parents hadn't...
MET I wouldn't be alive today. If you had found SMASH English earlier you would already be
fluent in English! And that is certainly true but wait! There is another mixed conditional that you
need to know for the B2 First Cambridge exam. Another one!? Another one! Monica,
these people, they're laughing at you, yeah? They're not being serious! It's a joke!
If I were a weak person that comment would have bothered me but I'm not so it didn't. Bruce,
I'm in the big leagues now! Yeah? I'm a celebrity! Soon I'm gonna have like a million followers on
facebook and instagram and twitter and everything yeah and to all of my fans out there, I just want
to say thank you! I'd like to thank you most of all and God! I'd like to thank God! I'm really
religious. I'm a good girl and um... Oh shut up this is ridiculous! Three comments, mate. And
there it was! If I were a weak person that comment would have bothered me. Oh fantastic! Let's have
a look at that grammar because like I said before we really really love grammar! Again we have our
two clauses: our condition clause and our result clause. Our condition clause is part of the second
conditional. We use the second conditional to talk about an imaginary future or an imaginary present.
In this mixed conditional the condition clause describes an imaginary present. The result clause
is part of the third conditional. We use this to talk about an imaginary past result.
So this mixed conditional describes an imaginary present situation with an imaginary result in the
past. But, Toby! How is this possible? How can the present affect the past? Oh
excellent question, Toby! You are a genius! The present situation is usually a state,
so a present but also permanent situation. Oh I see! Thanks, Toby! Toby is really intelligent,
isn't he? Yes I think I love Toby! Yeah me too! Let's look at some more examples. If I were
more intelligent I would not have become an English teacher. If I were happy I wouldn't have
been crying all night last night! If I were you I would have already SMASHED that subscribe button!
Oh yeah! And as always you can change the clause order if you want.
So we have two types of mixed conditional that you need to know for the B2 First Cambridge exam!
One has the third conditional in the IF clause and the second conditional in the RESULT clause
and we use this for imaginary past situations with imaginary present results. The other one
in the IF clause uses the second conditional and in the result clause we use the past conditional
and that is an imaginary present situation with an imaginary result in the past. And
that's it! That's, that's everything. This whole video could have been 10 seconds long.
But that would be terrible, Toby because we love watching you! Yes! Yes you do!
Wow, Toby! If I hadn't watched this video I would be crying right now! If I didn't
love SMASH English I wouldn't have commented and liked this video and subscribed to the channel and
shared it with all my friends but I don't have any friends because Toby is my only friend...
just... finish... finish. Yeah so if you love me comment below and tell me how beautiful I am
yeah? Yeah... and that.... If you liked the video don't forget to SMASH that like button,
subscribe if you haven't already, leave a comment down below! My name is Toby and this was SMASH
English.