curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-use-conditionals/6785175ebbf89262b90a8a49.md
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Which sentence is grammatically correct?
If that happened, a lot of smaller companies were be in trouble, too.
For the conditional, if the condition is in the Past Simple tense (hypothetical), the result should use would.
If that happened, a lot of smaller companies would be in trouble, too.
If that happened, a lot of smaller companies will be in trouble, too.
Using will is incorrect in a Second Conditional. The result of a hypothetical condition should use would.
If that happens, a lot of smaller companies will be in trouble, too.
This sentence uses the First Conditional, which is for real possibilities. However, the sentence given is a hypothetical scenario, making it a Second Conditional.
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The correct sentence, If that happened, a lot of smaller companies would be in trouble, too, is a Second Conditional, used for hypothetical or unreal situations in the present or future. In this sentence:
If that happened is the hypothetical condition.
A lot of smaller companies would be in trouble, too is the imagined result.