Advanced conditional sentences

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work on

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building muscle.

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B2, I know I would be in much better

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shape if I'd started working out when I

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was younger. And C1,

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but for my husband's encouragement, I

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would never have started going to the

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gym at all. So, in the B1 sentence, I

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used a second conditional to give

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advice. If I were you, I would work on.

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Notice the use of were instead of was

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with the pronoun I.

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Using were is an example of the

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subjunctive mood, which expresses

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hypothetical situations. In the B2

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sentence, I used a mixed conditional to

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say how something in the past can affect

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the present. I used would be in the

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second conditional and had started in

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the third conditional. And in the C1

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sentence, you can see a third

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conditional with the structure but for

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standing in for an if phrase. Again,

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there is so much more to learn about

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conditionals at each level. That's just

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a small glimpse. Next, let's talk about

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the future at B1, B2, and C1 levels. You

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need to be able to talk about the future

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in