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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