In Tenses^x, Conditionals^x

Good examples, YL. I totally forgot about them. I was thinking about If + will at the beginning of sentences. Do you think it's possible to start a sentence with if+will like in my previous post?

Hello. http://www.eslincanada.com/englishlesson4.html Future Real Conditional If I have money, I will travel. Future Unreal Conditional If I have money, I am going to travel. (I don't know if I will have money or not.) If I had money, I would travel. (I won't have money.) I...

Here are 3 examples. I don't know if I will see my children again. I’m not asking if I will get the email. I wonder if I will ever write a poem again.

IMO, if ...will is rare but I think it's possible: Consider If you'll listen,you won't always get into trouble ( To me, it sounds like the speaker implies the person he talks to is stubborn.) What do you think, YL?

Yoong Liat, thank you for correcting me. But sometimes I also see people use "If I will." Can you tell me in what cases it is acceptable?

Find and correct one mistake in the sentence below: Things will be better if I will get a job and earn some money so I don't have to live with my parents. My teacher thinks that will get is uncorrect (will get => get). I think don't have has to be changed to won't have. Please...

Hi, Hi, Why is it that in the situation below, 'would' has to go with 'spent' and 'will' with 'has spent"? I know 'would' is used in the sense of indicating past actions but 'would' is also used for indicating conditional intention. He...

If I have win a million dollars, I will use it to help others. (better word) Are the following variant cases correct? Are we be able to use modals other than 'will' for a frist conditional patternI If I have a million dollars, I would use it to help others. 'Would' is incorrect...

Why don't you start out early so that you don't have to hurry? Present-present here suggests instead, replacement, doing something instead of something. Better example: Why don't you take your car so that you don't have to walk? If you do not take your car, you have to walk. If...

Jean-Francois, the only "trick" to reported speech is that sometimes the tense shifts back. It doesn't have to if the essential truth of the issue is still true, but it's never wrong to shift it back either. You can use the "that" - you are inconsistent in using it. ...