1st or 2nd Conditional?

English 1b3 If I got lost, I would have extra time.

Is this 1st or second conditional?

Second.

IF {present}, ... WILL ... = first conditional
IF {past*}, ... WOULD ... = second conditional

CJ

*Always "were" if the verb is "to be".

But this is referring to a present situation in the past. Isn't it a 1st conditional 'backshifted' into the past, since it still refers to a real word, likely scenario?

You have your answer above. There is no other answer.

CJ

??? Are you saying that just because I change the tense of the passage the conditional changes?

I leave home early to make sure if I get lost, I will have extra time.



I left home early to make sure if I got lost, I would have extra time.

The likelihood of it happening is still likely. It is just shifted to the past, due to 'left.'

From one on-line grammar page:

Use conditional sentences to speculate about the future result of a condition that is
not true in the present. In this type of conditional sentence, the subordinate clause
contains the past-tense verb 'were' (never 'was'), and the independent clause contains
the modal 'would',' could', or 'might', plus the base form of the verb.

English 1b3I was glad I had left early. If I got lost, I would have extra time.

I imagine you could look at your two sentences this way:

Real present time (as a quote):

"I am glad I left early. If I get lost, I will have extra time."

In a first person narration of the past, that same pair of sentences could be written t

So what conditional would you call it, Yankee?

Hi English 1b3

Well, the form is certainly the same as a standard second conditional.

I think you've already correctly identified the sense of this conditional at the time it was actually said (or thought) -- that the speaker viewed getting lost as a real possibility at that time in the past.

Perhaps you might simply think of the use of the second conditional form in th

this is second conditional because we always use would for second conditional and we use will which is in the present