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Shalom!The team will lose if it rains.While making this past, do we say: The team would lose if it rained (or) The team would lose if it were to rain. (or) The team would lose should it rain.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Past?

The team would have lost if it had rained.

Anonymous · Answer

Thank you. The examples I gave, what tense are they? How are they different from your sentence?

Mister Micawber · Answer

Yours are present, Conditional II:

The team would lose if it rained today/tomorrow (or) The team would lose if it were to rain today/tomorrow. (or) The team would lose should it rain today/tomorrow.

Mine is past, Conditional III. You can google the phrase for more information on Conditional Sentences.

Anonymous · Answer

1- The team will lose if it rains.

This expresses a future probable actions.

It means: It is probable that it will rain. If this happens, the team will lose.

2- The team would lose if it rained.

Here "would lose" and "rained" are past forms not past actions or past time.

The sentence here means: We know in advance that it won't rain. That's why we expect or know that we won't lose.

So the second sentence also is a future situation

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1- The team will lose if it rains.

2- The team would lose if it rained.

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