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Anonymous  #510724  Wed, 07 May 08 09:13 AM

Hi,

I think Mr. M said that the following is a type 1 conditional. According to a general explanation, it was noted that in 1st conditional, if is ued to speculate about the future consequence of some event. 1.Does the if-clause here contain any future in it?

if I have the authority to decide on this matter, I would like for us to order pizza since it is fairly cheap and it is likely it will arrive less than 40 minutes if we have them deliver   

2. How is that different from this typical type 2 conditional

If I knew her number, I would call her to say hi.

3. Also, how would you be able to differentiate this with a type 3 conditional with the sense of the future inherent in it even without any time or day words.

If I know her number, I would call her to say hi (tomorrow afternoon -- I think this words are not needed since the above sentence could deliver the sense of the future even without them lke the above type 2 conditional).          

  
Ant_222  #510761  Wed, 07 May 08 12:07 PM
This a very general question, so I think it'd be best for you to find some info with Google and then go back to the forum and ask help with what you haven't understood from the articles. If I started answering your question I would probably repeat one of the many on-line tutorials:
http://esl.about.com/od/gramma1/a/conditional.htm
  
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Marius Hancu  #510808  Wed, 07 May 08 01:41 PM
 

Read:

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html

those pages show you quite clearly the tenses and the  real/unreal  aspect of it.

Don't get stuck in numbers (type 1, etc),  think about  correctness and what you want to express.

 

  
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