Esta una guía muy útil para crear oraciones con el segundo condicional en Inglés con muy poca dificultad.
Las oraciones con el segundo condicional en Inglés o second conditional se usan para hablar de situaciones imposibles e imaginarias.
| If I won the lottery, I would buy a big house |
| She would travel all over the world if she were rich. |
Ahora analicemos todo lo que debes saber para realizar oraciones con el segundo condicional o second conditional.
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Estructura del Second Conditional
Para crear oraciones con el segundo condicional o second conditional, debemos tomar en cuenta las siguientes estructuras:
| #1 | Pasado simple |
| #2 | El modal would |
Las oraciones con el pasado simple lucen esta manera:
- I earned a lot of money
- I won the lottery
- I made a trip to Europe
- He made food for forty people
- He traveled to Spain
- He rented a house by the beach
Las oraciones con would lucen de esta manera:
- I would buy a car
- I would stay in the cheapest hotel
- I would buy more crypto
- She would never buy NFTS
- She would quit her job
- She would buy an apartment
Esta es la estructura para hacer oraciones con el segundo condicional:
| If | Pasado Simple | Would + Infinitivo |
| If | I had money | I would buy a car |
| If | She had a car | She would accept the job |
Tambien puedes invertir el orden de la oración y hacer algo similar a esto:
| Would + Infinitivo | If | Pasado Simple |
| I would buy a car | If | I had money |
| She would accept the job | If | She had a car |
Oraciones con el Segundo Condicional
Estos son ejemplos de oraciones con el segundo condicional o second conditional
- If she knew the answer, she would win the prize
- If I had your phone number, I would call you
- I would buy you a present if I had enough money
- If I studied, I would pass the exams.
- I would be in better shape if I went to the gym more often
- If she trained hard, she could lose some weight.
- If he wasn’t so lazy, he would get a job
- If it didn’t rain, we would go on a picnic.
- If I went to Paris, I would see the Eiffel Tower
- If I were you, I wouldn’t marry him.
Preguntas con el Segundo Condicional [Second Conditional]
Estas son algunas preguntas con el segundo condicional
- What would you do if somebody stole your car?
- What would you do if you saw a man trying to steal your car?
- Where would you live if you could live anywhere?
- If you were powerful enough to change the world, what would you change?
- If you were given three wishes, what would you wish for?
- Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?
- If you could change your past, what would you change?
- If your house was on fire, what personal belonging would you miss the most?
- If you could be anyone in the world, who would you be?
Preguntas con What Would you do?
Would es un verbo modal en Inglés que le agrega la terminación -ia a los verbos que este modifica.
What would you do? significa ¿Que harías?
What would you do? es una pregunta muy común para hablar de situaciones hipotéticas en Inglés
Estas son algunas preguntas con what would you do:
- What would you do if you won a million dollars?
- If you won the lottery, what would you buy?
- If you changed your name, what name would you choose?
- What would you do if you could be invisible for a day?
- What would you do if you saw a ghost?
- What would you do if you saw a person shoplifting?
- What would you do if a robber broke in at night?
- What would you do if you saw a man hitting a woman?
- What would you do if you saw three men attacking another man?
- What would you do if you had to catch a bus but you don’t have any money?
Preguntas con If you Could
Could es un verbo modal en Inglés que usualmente se traduce como “podría” o “podrías”
Sin embargo en este tipo de oraciones condicionales, “If you could” se traduce como “si pudieras”
Estas son algunas preguntas con el segundo condicional usando la palabra Could.
- If you could be an animal, what animal would you be?
- If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
- If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
- If you could commit any crime and get away with it, what would you do?
- If you could be famous, what would you like to be famous for?
- If you could be a Marvel Comics superhero, who would you like to be?
- If you could be a DC Comics superhero, who would you like to be?
- If you could be an athlete, what sport would you like to be good at?
- If you could pick to do any other job for a living, what would that job be?
- If you could travel back in time, what year would you go to?
Conclusion
Espero que ahora tengas mucho más claro el cómo hacer oraciones con el segundo condicional en Inglés.
Las oraciones con el second conditional requieren el manejo de ciertas estructuras y cierto vocabulario por lo que este no es un tema para principiantes.
Si encuentras dificultades para entender la gramática acá presentada, debes estudiar los tiempos verbales y verbos modales utilizados para hacer oraciones con el segundo condicional.
