Describe your life with second and third conditionals
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Differentiating between the Second Conditional and the Third Conditional is an aspect of the English language many learners have a lot of trouble with. It’s understandable as conditionals are tricky and distinguishing between them even trickier. Barring a visit to the University of California Department of Linguistics for an in-depth explanation of the problem, what is a learner to do? Well, we understand the predicament you find yourself in, so we’ve tried to make this guide as detailed as possible. In order to explain it as well as we can, let’s take for an example two virtually identical sentences, but in two different conditionals - the Second and the Third, and note both the grammatical differences, as well as differences in meaning and use.