Grammar : Conditional/ If sentence

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Grammar : Conditional/ If sentence

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Name: Dev Prasad Pandit

Address:Khairahani-4, Chainpur, Chitwan

School: Jana Jiwan Secondary School,Khairahani-2, Chitwan

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Conditional sentence/ If sentence

Conditional sentences are used to speculate about what may happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen. There are mainly four types of conditional sentences. They are zero conditional, type-1, type-2 and type-3.

• Zero conditional: If you boil water at 100⁰ Celsius, it changes into steam.

• Type-1 (cause and effect): If it rains, I will stay at home.

• Type-2 (possible) : If you were a bird, you would fly in the sky.

• Type-3 (impossible) : If I had come in time, he would have caught the bus.

There are two clauses in conditional sentence. They are: (i) if clause (ii) main clause. The tense of “main clause” depends on the tense of “if clause”. Instead of if, other connectives like whether or unless (if not) can be used.

The situations and uses of condition are presented below:

The structures of conditional sentences are in the following way.

Some examples:

• Oil floats if it is poured into water.

• If we heat water, it gives off vapour.

• You will pass if you work hard.

• Unless you study hard, you won’t pass the exam.

• If you buy a car, drive carefully.

• What would you do if you were the headmaster?

• If he knew the answer, he would tell the teacher.

• If I were a bird, I would fly in the sky.

• If she invited me, I would attend her wedding.

• If he had studied hard, he would have passed the exam.

• Had he studied hard, he wouldn’t have failed the exam.

• Madan would have helped you, if you had asked him.