Clear Conditionals Explanation Conditionals is one of the most complicated grammar topics in English. And in my humble opinion, the root cause of complications is a weird way of conditional types classification. I have been learning English for a long time and I always returned to conditionals, because I couldn’t understand them at subconscious level. I tried to use as many sources as possible. I read grammar books, watched tons of videos, and consulted with teachers. Although using as many sources as possible helped me many times to gain insight, nothing could help me to grab conditionals. These type-0, type-1 stuff always confused me. What does the number mean in that classification? It doesn’t make any sense at all! But recently I watched another video about conditionals, and something clicked inside my head immediately. And the reason was a different angle that the creator of the video used to explain the topic. According to the video, there are only 2 types of conditionals: real and unreal. And you can use the both types in 3 tenses: past, present and future. We can notice that by simple multiplication of the numbers we get 6 types of conditionals overall. It is a little bit more than in the standard classification. It’s happening simply because we use similar structures in different tenses. I’ve created a table with structures and examples. An interesting fact is that in Russian language we use identical tenses in present-unreal. “Если бы я выпил (прошедшее) кофе сейчас, то чувствовал(прошедшее) себя хорошо”. And it’s not surprising because English and Russian are Indo-European languages and we have a lot in common. I hope someone finds it helpful on their way to English proficiency. As for me, I can’t understand why conditionals are not explained in that way. And I think that if I had watched that video in the beginning of my English journey, I could have avoided a tremendous amount of errors and misunderstanding. Link to the video (Russian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FGRYmscp8