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We use the zero conditional when the result will always happen.
If I drink a cup of coffee, I wake up.
We use the first conditional when we think it is possible that an action will happen in the future.
If I drink a cup of coffee, I will wake up.
We use the second conditional when we imagine an action in the present or future but we think it will probably not happen.
If I drank some a cup of coffee, I would wake up.
We use the third conditional when we imagine an action didn't happen in the past.
If I had drunk some a cup of coffee, I would have woken up.
A mixed conditional is a combination of the second and third conditionals. We use it when something that happened in the past influences the present.