Given the following sentences, what is the difference between the conditional clauses in them?
- If you saw a lion in a thick forest, what would you do?
- If you were to see a lion in a thick forest, what would you do?
I'm asking this simple thing because it's confusing me, since there is no such thing in my native language (it's quite different from English).
I can understand this one (it may be a different question):
If you had seen a lion in a thick forest, what would have you done?
but it's a bit confusing me. In my native language, it's always formulated as follows:
If you would have seen a lion in a thick forest, what would have you done?
Does this make any difference in English?