good conditional?

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Anonymous  #523717  Fri, 06 Jun 08 09:59 AM

Hi,

Is any of these a good conditional? Which conditional could it be - first or second or any other?

If you get something in your eyes, you should rub your eyes.

If your mom comes home, you should ask for her to buy you an ice cream.  

  
Ruslana  #523721  Fri, 06 Jun 08 10:07 AM

What do you mean by "a good conditional"?

Both the sentences you gave are fine if we're talking about conditionals. There are just some corrections I'd make:

If you get something in your eyes, you should rub your eyes them.

If your mom comes home, you should ask for her to buy you an ice cream.  

They sound better this way, in my opinion.

Conditionals of the first type, generally, describe events that can really happen. Conditionals of the second type describe events that can hardly happen. Conditionals of the third type describe events that could happen in the past but did not happen.

Hope this makes it clearer.

  
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Marius Hancu  #523723  Fri, 06 Jun 08 10:09 AM
I think they are OK. See similar examples in books:

34 on "if you get * you should ask"

http://books.google.com/books?q=%22if+you+get+*+you+should+ask%22+&btnG=Search+Books

You can think of them as being  1st conditionals:

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditional_2.htm

as

If you get something in your eyes, you should rub your eyes.

being an equivalent form of: 

If you get something in your eyes, you WILL need to rub your eyes.

Or you can think of them as being mixed conditionals in form, but not in substance. 

  
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