Question

Select the category to which the following sentence belongs:
If all children had computers, they would be better educated.

• A. First Conditional
• B. Second Conditional
• C. Third Conditional
• D. Zero Conditional

Answer 1

The correct option is B Second Conditional

The Second Conditional is used to refer to future actions that are dependent on the result of a past condition, but when there is a very small possibility of the condition being satisfied. In fact, this condition is often used to talk about hypothetical possibilities; ones that are unreal. The structure for the first conditional is: if + past tense, would + verb. In this case, the verb is 'to be' and thus the sentence adheres to the structure of the Second Conditional - i.e, Option B).