Conditional Clause

Conditional Clause

Conditional clause is also called If clause. This clause is used to show the requirement of something that may happen if the requirement is fulfilled. Some may happen, some are impossible to happen.

Example:

If I have much money, I will buy many books.

Here, the author will buy many book, if the requirement is fulfilled, if he has much money.

There are three (3) kinds of conditional clause.

I.                    To show that something is possible to happen

 

If + S + V1, + S + Will + V1

Example:

-          I will come if you invite me

II.                  To show unreal present (That something is impossible to happen now because it is only imagination.

 

                         If + S + V2, + S + would + V1

                          Example:

-          She would stay here if his husband worked in that bank.

 

If + S + V2, + S + would + V1

Example:

-          If I were wise, I would be calm.

III.                Unreal past (That something is impossible to happen because the activity was in the past tense.

 

If + S + had + V3, + S + Would + Have + V3

example:  

-   If I had not missed the bus, I would not have come late