I learned in a grammar book that conditionals are not affected by tense, but the following is confusing. Is it conditional1(factual conditional) to mean something that could possibly occur in the past or conditional2(counter-factual conditional) to mean something that can not possbily occur. Or does it depend?
-g.w
Mel- I thought if I opened myself up to him, that if I took a risk and told him my secret, it would show him how much I believed in him.
Another example would be like this.
He says "I would go if I were not ill"
=> He said that he would go if he were not ill.
Last edited by keannu; 28-Aug-2011 at 04:34.
Conditional 1 talks about events that may happen in the future.
Conditional 2 talks about imaginary present events (impossible) and future events that are unlikely to happen.