Berdasarkan perbedaan tenses yang digunakan pada pasangan Main Clause dan If
Clause, conditional sentences dibedakan menjadi 3 type
Type 3: If I had had much money, I would have gone to market = Regretting
Modal CAN juga bisa digunakan pada kalimat Main Clause untuk memberikan arti
yang permission. Sebagaimana arti dasar dari modal CAN tersebut yang bermakna
bisa atau boleh. Selain modal CAN, penekanan makna permission juga bisa
menggunakan modal MAY yang pada dasarnya mempunyai arti boleh. Perhatikan
contoh berikut!
Selain modal CAN dan MAY, kalimat Main Clause juga bisa menggunakan modal
SHOULD. Ketika modal SHOULD ini digunakan pada Main Clause untuk konstruksi
Conditional Sentence ini menunjukkan sebuah saran atau nasihat (advise). Selain
kata SHOULD yang berarti saran nasihat ini, Main Clause juga bisa menggunakan
modal HAD BETTER dan OUGHT TO.Perhatikan contoh berikut ini!
If Clause Type II
Examples :
1. If you were sick, you would take a rest.
2. If She got the first prize, she would give it to her mother.
3. If They didn’t agree with the concept, they would not join it.
4. If Ryan had much money , he could buy a laptop .
5. If Robert and Frank didn’t come, I would not tell you.
Examples :
6. If you had been sick, you would have taken a rest.
7. If She had got the first prize, she would have given it to her mother.
8. If They hadn’t agreed with the concept, they would not have joined it.
9. If Ryan had had much money , he could have bought a laptop .
10. If Robert and Frank hadn’t come, I would not have told you..