Saturday, December 27, 2014

Conditional Setences




 Conditionals 

"Condition" means "situation or circumstance". If a particular condition is true, then a particular result happens.

What Are Conditional Sentences?

* Conditional sentences play an important role in grammar. They describe a condition and the result that follows.
* Conditional sentences are also known as Conditional clauses or If clauses.
* Conditional sentences have two clauses:  a condition (if...) and a result.
* Conditionals are sentences with two clauses – an ‘if clause and a main clause – that are closely related.
* Conditional sentences are used to express that the action in the main clause (without if) can only take place if a certain condition (in the clause with if) is fulfilled.
* The clause without the if is the main clause of the sentence, while the if clause is subordinate.

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Definition:-
Conditional sentences are made up of two halves -
One half (the half with the word if in) is a condition,
and the other half (the main clause) states the action to occur if the condition is fulfilled.
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 eg.:-
Conditional Clause and Main Clause
If I have enough money,
Conditional clause
I will buy a car.
Main clause
I will buy a car,
Main clause
if I have enough money.
Conditional clause

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 Note:-
* The order of the two clauses is generally not that important to the meaning of the sentence; so we can switch the if clause to the end of the sentence if we want to.
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