There is a sense that we are dissatisfied with our present or future situation and try to imagine a different – maybe better – one. We often use second conditional to express the following functions, among many others:Ħ.3.3 The time in second conditional can be either unreal present or unreal future. However, there is much more to second conditional, as we will discover. If we hear this phrase we know that advice is going to follow in the main clause. The phrase ‘If I were you’ is an idiom – a fixed phrase with a set meaning. Note: some students learn the ‘giving advice’ formula and repeat it as if it were the only use of second conditional. Second conditional is also known as ‘the would condition’, ‘conditional type 2’, or ‘type 2 conditional’.Ħ.3.2 We use second conditional to talk about unlikely, impossible, or hypothetical actions, as well as for giving advice and making polite requests.
If I won the lottery, I would be a millionaire. 6.3.1 Second conditional is a grammatical structure in English that predicts the result if a – usually unlikely – condition were met.
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