Conditional Sentences

Randi           : Rina, don’t you follow the scholarship selection?

Rina             : If all my grades were more than eight, I would certainly take part in the selection.

The sentence in bold in the dialogue is called a conditional sentence. We use this type of sentence to express our hope or expectation toward something.

A conditional sentence consists of two parts: “Main Clause” and “If Clause”

Conditional Sentence Type 1

→ It is possible and also very likely that the condition will be fulfilled.

Form: if + Simple Present, will-Future

Example: If I find her address, I’ll send her an invitation.

Conditional Sentence Type 2

→ It is possible but very unlikely, that the condition will be fulfilled.

Form: if + Simple Past, Conditional I (= would + Infinitive)

Example: If I found her address, I would send her an invitation.

Conditional Sentence Type 3

→ It is impossible that the condition will be fulfilled because it refers to the past.

Form: if + Past Perfect, Conditional II (= would + have + Past Participle)

Example: If I had found her address, I would have sent her an invitation.

Additional Information :

Kalimat laporan dari suatu pernyataan mengalami beberapa perubahan antara lain :

1.      Pronoun dan Possessive Adjective

Direct	Indirect
I You My Our Your	He / she Me / he / she / them / I / him / her His / her Their / our My / his / her

2.      Keterangan Waktu dan Tempat

Direct	Indirect
now today tomorrow next….. last…… yesterday here this these	then that day the next day the day after the following day the…….after the following….. the……before the previous……. the day before the previous day there that those

3.      Tenses

Direct	Indirect
present past past perfect	past past perfect past perfect

Untuk mudahnya berikut inti dari perubahan tenses

Direct	Indirect
Is/am Are Was /were Has/have Must	Was Were Had been Had Had to

Contoh :

Direct	Indirect
Anto : I will go now Father : I was sick yesterday	Anto said that he would go then Father told that he had been sick the day before