If they've been in love with you once before....wouldn't it be best if you did exactly what drew them to you in the first place?

Question

If you know could you please explain me what conditionals are used there

Answer 1

It's a bit unclear what the specific question is, so I'll include an overview of what I see here using the first "if". For conditionals, we want to recognize the following key words in the sentence: 1. if ( this starts the IF clause), 2. "then" or "..."(this starts the Then clause), and 3. the verbs. A clause is a group of words linked together.

_{If clause: If they've been in love with you once before}

_{Then clause: ...wouldn't it be best if you did exactly what drew them to you in the first place?}

The most common conditional phrase is "if...then." It is The beginning of your sentence uses the word IF. The second clause, the "then clause" usually comes after the ellipses , or is left out when you use an ellipses. You can mentally trade "..." and "then." for these exercises.

This may be considered a type 2 hypothetical clause. In using the word "would" or "wouldn't" + "it be," you are talking about something hypothetical (imaginary and possible) in the future.

Other notes:

"have been" is a passive present perfect verb.

** you know you have the correct IF clause if you can mentally answer the question it poses by using the THEN clause.

**the second "if" in the sentence is not the most important one that we should focus on. this is because there is no "then" clause that answers it.

Hope this helps!