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Hoping for a little (more) help please. :-?
I can't work out if this sentence is 1st or 2nd conditional:
If we could find an alternative to landfills, it would help the environment.
I understand that the result clause is in 2nd conditional form (would + base verb), but I'm not sure about the condition clause. Is 'could' acting as the past simple verb? or is 'find' the main verb? making it a 1st conditional clause. In which case I suppose it would be mixed :?:
I can't work out if this sentence is 1st or 2nd conditional:
If we could find an alternative to landfills, it would help the environment.
I understand that the result clause is in 2nd conditional form (would + base verb), but I'm not sure about the condition clause. Is 'could' acting as the past simple verb? or is 'find' the main verb? making it a 1st conditional clause. In which case I suppose it would be mixed :?: