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IF CONDITIONAL
SENTENCE
Type
I
We use this for a condition wich we
belive is possible.
From
Type
II
We use this for an imaginary condition,
which we belive to be impossible.
We use the past tense although the
speaker is thinking about the present of future.
From
Type
III
We use this to talk about past events
which cannot be changed, so we know that condition is impossible and its
consequence is imaginary.
From
Short Story With Conditional Sentense
"On
Condition"
If someone had told me when I was at school, I would not have
believed it. If I tell people today,
they say they have not heard of it. Of course it was a long time ago.
But it is true: if you were 18, you had to do something called national
service. If you were reasonably fit — could stand up, walk about, sit down and
then stand up again and not fall over — you would have to report to a military
barracks near where you lived. If I had taken the
trouble to think about the practical side of the matter, I could have chosen a
different service. There were after all the navy and the airforce. The
navy wasn't very likely unless you had had dozens of uncles and grandparents in
the service before you.
In
my case this didn't apply at all. The airforce somehow appealed. I liked the
idea of tearing through the skies away from it all. If
I think about it now, I just can't imagine why I liked the idea especially
since flying for me today is a total nightmare. It probably came from
Great Aunt Mary - she wasn't that big but she had acquired the title
"great" because she'd been alive for so long. Anyhow she used to say:
"If you really do your national service, you'll probably be a pilot. I can
just see you sitting in a nice aeroplane." Of course if you objected to
any type of violence against your fellow man, you could always object —
officially I mean. If you thought along those lines, you were called a "conscientious
objector" and you had to appear before a special tribunal and explain your
reasons. Again you would probably be exempt from military service if you came
from a long line of conscientious objectors. In that case you would work in a
hospital for two years as a porter.
But
then my family didn't do a lot of objecting. I came from an ancestral
background who generally agreed with the majority. We didn't like to make a
fuss. The general philosophy that prevailed was: "If I were you dear, I'd
get on with it." On top of that I wasn't very conscientious either. We had
a black sheep in the family of course. He telephoned me shortly before my 18th
birthday and said: "If you really want to get out of doing national
service, I'll help you all I can. If I were you, I'd do what I'm doing."
His idea was to live abroad until he was 26 and then come home. It seemed a bit
extreme to me. If he'd known what happened in the end, he would have done it
here because he got caught for military service in the other country where he
was living!
For
those few months after I was 18 I was like a cat on a hot tin roof. If the telephone rang,
I would jump in the air. If the postman arrived late, I couldn't relax
until he had delivered the post and I had checked every item. My parents said
to me one morning: "If you don't relax, you'll end up having a nervous
break down. If the post does come, there's, nothing you can do about it. If I
were, you ... " but I didn't listen to the rest of the sentence because a
thought had come into my mind. Supposing I were, mad, supposing I didn't know,
who I was, supposing I pretended, that I didn't understand a word anybody was
saying - surely the Queen wouldn't want, a madman in her army. I tried it for a
few days but it was too much like hard work. You can imagine the comments:
"If you're, trying to get out of conscription by pretending to be barmy,
just forget, it because it isn't working ... if you honestly imagine, that your
mother and I are taken in by this stupid behaviour then you are, very much
mistaken. I can only repeat if I were you ..." Time passed slowly and I
began to think that If I kept quiet about it, maybe
the army would forget about me.
One
bright autumn day in September after a particularly good night's sleep I
strolled downstairs and saw what I took to be a postcard. A card from a late
holiday maker perhaps? It wasn't. It was a card informing me that I had to
report to H.M. Tower of London and giving me permission to travel there by
underground - one-way only of course. And that's how I came to spend the first
part of my national service in the Tower. Nobody now believes me if I tell them
I was there for three months but then I still have the emotional scars to prove
it. They tell me that if you want to visit the Tower as a tourist nowadays, it
is quite expensive. I haven't been back. I think three months is long enough if
you want to get to know a place. There are other places of interest near the
City of London. Now, if I were you ...
If Conditional Type 1
(Merah)
a.
If I tell people today, they
say they have not heard of it.
b. If I think about it now, I
just can't imagine why I liked the idea especially since flying for me today is
a total nightmare.
If Conditional Type 2
(Biru)
a.
If
the telephone rang, I would jump in the air
b.
If I kept quiet about it,
maybe the army would forget about me.
If Conditional Type 3
(Hijau)
a.
If someone had told me
when I was at school, I would not have believed it.
b. If I had taken the trouble
to think about the practical side of the matter, I could have chosen a
different service.
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