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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Conditional Sentences

Conditional sentences are used to speculated about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen. There are four main ways of constructing conditional sentences in english. in all cases, these sentences are made up of an if clause and a main clause.

There are four type of conditional sentence is:
1. Zero
    the zero conditional is used for when the time being referred to is now r always and the situation is real and possible.
Formula : if + simple present, simple present
for example : if heavy rain in Bogor, Jakarta gets flood

2. Type 1
     conditionals sentence type 1 is asentences use as conditionals result of a condition have the possibility to materialize in the future because of his realistic condition for the met.
formula : if + simple present, (will + bare infinitive)/imperative
for example : if i was getting hungry, i will soon to eat

3. Type 2
    conditional sentence type 2 is a sentence used as conditionals result of a condition have no or only a slight possibility to materialize because his condition is unlikely to be met in the present or the condition of her difficult to filled in the future.
formula : if + simple past, would/could/might + bare infinitive
for example : if i had much money, i would buy

4. Type 3
    conditional sentence type 3 is a sentence used as conditionals result of the condition is not likely to materialize because his condition had been fulfilled in the past.
formula : if + past perfect, would/should/could/might have + past participle
for example : if the waitress had been careful, she wouldn't have broken many plates

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