The conditional mood is used to express hypothetical or uncertain situations, events or actions that may occur in the future or could have happened in the past, given certain circumstances. It indicates that something is contingent upon something else, or dependent on a condition or situation that may or may not happen. The conditional mood is often used to make polite requests or suggestions, give advice, speculate, express doubt, or talk about possibilities or hypothetical scenarios. It is typically introduced by the words "if," "in case," "suppose," or "were."
