INISIASI 5

UNDERSTANDING
COMPLICATED SENTENCES II

Reading 3/ BING4206
 Conditionals
• Conditional sentences (kalimat pengandaian) are statements discussing
known factors or hypothetical situations and their consequences. 1
• Kalimat pengandaian bisa berisi kata-kata seperti:
- If - supposing - assuming
- Provided that - unless (if not) - otherwise
- But for

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conditional-sentences/
 Let’s practice
• Let's play tennis on Sunday, unless it's raining.
Will they play tennis?
 It can be ‘yes’ (if it’s not raining), and ‘no’ (if it’s raining)
• Assuming that I get that job, I will move to Jakarta.
Is it certain that I will move to Jakarta?
 No, karena kalimat tersebut adalah kalimat pengandaian. Saya hanya
akan pindah ke Jakarta jika mendapatkan pekerjaan itu.
 Inversion
• Dalam kalimat pengandaian (conditional sentence), “if” bisa dihilangkan, tetapi
susunan kata dirubah (subject dan verb ditukar posisinya).
• Kalimat tersebut disebut “inversion” dan dimulai dengan “had”, “were”, atau
“should”
• Example:
• If he were here, this job would finish sooner.
Inversion: Were he here, this job….
• If I had known about that news, I would have gone to meet you.
Inversion: Had I known about that news, I would have…
• If you have any questions, please come to my office.
Inversion: Should you have any questions, please…
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9780472032440-unit4.pdf
 Double Structure
• Dalam suatu kalimat, bisa terdiri dari 2 kata, klausa atau kalimat yang
mempunyai struktur yang sama.

Both and
Either or
Neither (same structure) (same structure)
nor
Not only but also
So that
The comparative the comparative
Example:

• Both my mother and my father like reading books.

Noun Noun

• Those shoes are so expensive that I can never afford it.

Clause Clause

• The older I get, the more I understand.

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