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?