CONDITIONAL SENTENCES FORMULA

Conditional sentences are built of two sentences, they are;

1. If Clause
2. Main Clause

Conditional sentences are divided into three types, they are;

1. Type I (probable condition)
2. Type II (present unreal)
3. Type III (past unreal)

TYPE I
IF + SIMPLE PRESENT (S + VERB1 + S/ES), SIMPLE FUTURE (S + WILL/SHALL + VERB1)
T Y P E II
IF + SIMPLE PAST (S + VERB2), PAST FUTURE (S + WOULD/SHOULD + VERB1)
T Y P E III
IF + PAST PERFECT (S + HAD + VERB3), PAST FUTURE PERFECT (S + WOULD/SHOULD + HAVE + VERB3)

Example:
- If I have a car, I will go to Balikpapan. (Type I)
- If I had a car, I would go to Balikpapan. (Type II)
- If I had had a car, I would have gone to Balikpapan (Type III)

There will be three possible questions occur for Conditional, they are;
1. If clause,………. (It means, we have to find the main clause of the sentence)
2. ………., main clause (It means, we have to find the If clause of the sentence)
3. If clause, main clause (It means, we have to find the meaning of the sentence)

TYPE I
MAYBE/PERHAPS/PROBABLY + SIMPLE PRESENT (S + VERB1 + S/ES)
T Y P E II
SIMPLE PRESENT (S + VERB1 + S/ES) (The fact of the sentence is contradictive to the real
condition)
T Y P E III
SIMPLE PAST (S + DIDN’T + VERB1) (The meaning is always negative)

Example:
1. If I have a car, I will go to Balikpapan.
- Maybe I have a car, so I go to Balikpapan.
2. If I had a car, I would go to Balikpapan.
- I don’t have a car, so I don’t go to Balikpapan.
3. If I had had a car, I would have gone to Balikpapan.
- I didn’t have a car, so I didn’t go to Balikpapan