One aspect of English grammar that I don’t remember having discussed fully in this column yet is the conditional sentence, which conveys the idea that the action in the main clause can take place only ...

Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...

When this column took up the grammar of "if"-conditional sentences last week, I emphasized that a good communicator doesn't make bland assertions of truth every time but expresses them simply as ...