Present simple and future simple tense

[Stephanie]

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #11 "Conditionals", question 8

......... you able to lend me some money if I promise you that you will get it back very soon?

(a) Are
(b) Was
(c) Were

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #11 "Conditionals", answer 8

Are you able to lend me some money if I promise you that you will get it back very soon?

Correct answer: (a) Are
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which one is the right answer?

Stephanie

[Daniela]

Dear Stephanie,
Your answer is correct. This sentence is first conditional and the verbs should be in the present simple and the futute simple tense. This is the so called "real condition" and it refers to the future.
Daniela
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[Alan]

Hi Stephanie,

You might be interested to read a piece I've written for the site on this topic. If you go to esl lessons and look in the index, you will find the heading Conditionals.

Hope this is of use.

Alan
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[Violino]

Dear Alan,

I don't understand the construction of one sentence from the article:

"For those few months after I was 18 I was like a cat on a hot tin roof. If the telephone rang, I would jump in the air. If the postman arrived late..."

Why it is not: "When the telefone rang, I jumped in the air"?*
I thought that Conditional II concern actions that could be done and maybe would be done, but they are not done by now.
In another words: I thought it concern possibility.

*Because if I understand this sentence correctly it means: every time (so not once but many times) the telephon rang, he jumped in the air.

[Yankee]

Hi Violino

Interesting question. I would suggest that the answer lies in the fact that the word 'would' can also be used to talk about past habitual activities. So, in that sense, the word 'would' does mean 'every time'.

Does that help?

Amy

[Violino]

After that:

[Alfwm]