Type If clause Main clause

Zero If + simple simple present

present
Type 1 If + simple simple future
present

Type 2 If + simple present conditional or

past present continuous
conditional
Type 3 If + past perfect conditional or
CONTOH
perfect perfect continuous
conditional
Zero
Mixed type If + past present conditional or PURPOSE OF
 If we burn paper, it becomes ash perfect or perfect conditional CONDITIONAL
simple past
 If you heat ice, it melts
Conditional sentences
 If it rains, the grass get wet are statements
discussing known
Type 1
factors or hypothetical
 If it rains, I will stay at home situations and their
 If you invite me, I will come to consequences. Complete
conditional sentences
your party
contain a conditional
 If he gives her chocolate, she
clause (often referred to
will be happy as the if-clause) and the
 If it doesn’t rain, we will go to consequence
the library
CONDITIONAL
Type 2 SENTENCE

 If I got scholarship, I would

continue my study in London
 If it rained tomorrow, I would
sleep all day
 If you went to the bed earlier,
you would not be so tired

Type 3
LANGUAGE FEATURES
 If you had studied harder, you
would have passed the exam Type Usage If clause Main clause verb
 If it had rained, you would have verb tense tense
gotten wet
 If I had accepted that Zero General truths Simple Simple present
present
promotion, I would have been
Type 1 A possible Simple Simple future
working in Milan condition and its present
probable result
Mixed Type

 If I had worked harder at Type 2 A hypothetical Simple past Present

school, I would have a better condition and its conditional or
probable result Present
job now continuous
 If we had looked at the map, we conditional
wouldn’t be lost Type 3 An unreal past Past Perfect Perfect
 If you weren’t afraid of spiders, condition and its conditional
you would have picked it up probable result in
the past
and put it outside

Mixed An unreal past Past perfect Present

type condition and its contditional
probable result in
the present
CONTOH SOAL

1. If I had come to music festival, I would have met Raisa there.

This sentence means ……
a. I didn’t come to the music festival but Raisa there
b. I had come to music festival in order to meet Raisa there
c. I didn’t come to music festival so I didn’t meet Raisa there
d. I come to music festival but I didn’t meet Raisa there
e. I didn’t come to music festival and Raisa was there

Pembahasan:

Pada kalimat diatas, menggunakan bentuk conditional sentence type 3, dengan fakta “unreal condition in the past”

Sehingga, faktanya adalah I didn’t come to music festival so I didn’t meet Raisa there

2. I am not a mechanic, so I can’t fix it.

This sentence means …….
a. If I could be a mechanic, I had fixed it
b. If I have been a mechanic, I would have fixed it
c. If I were a mechanic, I could fix it
d. If I am a mechanic, I could fix it
e. If I could have been a mechanic, I had fixed it

Pembahasan:

Pada kalimat diatas, menggunakan bentuk conditional sentence type 1, dengan fakta yang mungkin terjadi di masa akan
dating, dan faktanya adalah “possibility” di masa datang.

Sehingga, kalimat tersebut bermakna If I am a mechanic, I could fix it

3. …………, I might borrow it from him.

a. Were the novel his
b. The novel were his
c. If his the novel
d. If the novel him
e. If his the novel

Pembahasan:

Penggunaan might menunjukkan pada bentuk conditional sentence type 2 dengan pattern subject + past tense + subject +
might/would/could

Seharusnya: If the novel were his, I might borrow it from him

Penggunaan inversi/pembalikan digunakan dalam kalimat tersebut, sehingga were the novel his, I might borrow it from
him