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Conditional Sentence-1 .: "IF" CLAUSES .: "WISH" CLAUSES .: AS IF / AS THOUGH
This research is an endeavor to examine the problem of conditional sentences in English grammar and short novels. English is deemed to be the only language that truly links the whole world together. Without English, the whole world may not be as united as it is today. Of all basic grammatical points, English conditional structure is an important one which should be put into special consideration. English conditional structure plays an important part in English Grammar and mastering it contributes greatly to the students’ English performance. English conditionals require coordination of verb forms in both the “ if “and the result clauses and the fact that verb forms often do not retain their normal temporal meaning makes it even more complex Although the various conditional forms might seem quite abstract at first, they are actually some of the most useful structures in English and are commonly included in daily conversations.
2006 •
Teaching English through literature is an effective and interesting way of administering a sugar-coated pill to an unwilling patient. As it involves the emotions and imagination of the learner, it allows him to explore different aspects of linguistic exploration. This paper is a modest attempt to explore types of conditional sentences in English by analyzing some interesting examples from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. They may include sentences such as in (1) which refer to a true situation, (2) which refers to a probable situation, (3) which describes an improbable situation, and (4) which describes a contrary-to-fact situation. 1. … if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds… (chapter 1, p. 13) 2. 'Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key….' (chapter 1, p. 15) 3. 'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went on without attending to her, 'if we had the door between us. For instance, if you were inside, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.' (chapter 6, p. 51) 4. 'If it had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' (chapter 6, p. 55) Normally English uses the present tense in the if clause if it refers to a possible situation, and past tense if it refers to a remote situation. A modal is not used in the if clause unless the sentence involves a formal request as in (4). 5. 'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself.' (chapter 7, p. 66) Many more sentences will be examined from the connected texts to illustrate and re-enforce the grammatical points made above. Keywords: Conditional sentences, Alice in Wonderland, Teaching English through literature
2005 •
First, this paper proposes a new classification of ordinary language conditionals and discusses some of their properties. My approach is fundamentally based on the classical view that a conditional involves a sufficient condition (the antecedent) and a necessary condition (the consequent). Since the truth of the consequent is necessary for the truth of the antecedent, it is also an integral property of a typical conditional that the falsity of the consequent is sufficient for the falsity of the antecedent. Then the paper goes into the much discussed question of the truth conditions of a conditional. Some authors maintain that conditionals are not propositions and are not bearers of a truth-value.1 Contrary to these claims, I consider ordinary language conditionals as statements that are considered true or false by the speaker and the addressee and express propositions that may be true or false. Since it involves sufficiency and necessity, a conditional is seen here as a complex sort of modal statement. ‘If’ is considered as an ordinary language operator that establishes a triple modal relation between two propositions. The paradoxes of the material conditional are avoided, as well as some problems of the alternative theories of the conditional. On the other hand, as any theory, the present one has its own problems, which, for lack of space, I will not explore in this article.
2011 •
Conditional sentences, canonically of the form “if p, q”, whisk us away to a scenario described by their antecedent and then make a claim about it in their consequent. There are two main kinds of conditionals, as illustrated in the well-known Oswald/Kennedy minimal pair (due to Adams 1970):
Cognitive Linguistics
Three types of conditionals and their verb forms in English and Portuguese2008 •
to appear in: Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics Ed. by Wesley Jacobsen (Harvard U) and Yukinori Takubo (NINJAL))
Conditionals in JapaneseThis chapter deals with conditional sentences in standard Japanese. The main focus is on the description of the usages of conditional endings and their interaction with tenses and aspect rather than on theoretical or typological aspects of conditionals. The approach is cognitive and descriptive, rather than formal and theoretical although some references will be made to formal semantic approaches to conditionals. This chapter is organized as follows. In section 2, I will give a brief introduction of the basic morphological and semantic characteristics of four types of conditional forms expressing a conditional premise. In section 3, I will give a basic classification of Japanese conditionals based on the notion of ‘settledness.’ In section 4, non-hypothetical uses of conditional forms are described. Section 5 is the summary and conclusion.
Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics
The underlying conditionality of conditionals which do not use if2012 •
In addressing a question at the semantics-pragmatics interface of how conditionals in English should be categorised, this paper addresses the underlying question: what is a conditional? Conditionals in English are very often associated with the canonical pattern ‘if p then q’. But while the word 'if' provides a simple function to aid us in expressing our conditional thought, it goes without saying that conditional thought does not go hand in hand with the single word 'if'. This paper explores some of the ways that conditionals may be expressed in English without using 'if' by presenting observations obtained from the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) combined with results from previous empirical studies (e.g. Declerck & Reed 2001). In doing so, this paper considers the question what exactly it is to be a conditional, proposing some criteria to guide the categorisation of conditional expressions. In turn, this paper aims to shed some light as to why conditionals using 'if' are so often focussed upon.
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