CONDITIONAL CLAUSES (or IF-CLAUSES)

❑ CONDITIONAL CLAUSES ou "IF CLAUSES".

➭ Tópico muito recorrente em questões de vestibulares e concursos públicos.

➭ CONDITIONAL CLAUSES são orações subordinadas condicionais iniciadas geralmente por IF  e expressam situações que podem ser possíveis, hipotéticas, irreais, prováveis de acontecer no presente ou no futuro ou que ainda expressam uma condição passada e que portanto, é impossível agora no presente.

- If you press the bottom, the machine starts to work! – Se você pressionar o fundo, a máquina começa a funcionar!

- If you eat too much, you'll be sick! – Se você comer demais, ficará doente!

- If I had time, I would do that for you! – Se eu tivesse tempo, faria isso por você!

- If we had stayed at home, we could have see him!  – Se tivéssemos ficado em casa, poderíamos tê-lo visto!

➭ No estudo das CONDITIONAL CLAUSES, temos que observar 02 (duas) partes dentro de uma sentença dada, veja:
- "If you don't go, I'll be alone!

*IF CLAUSE (oração condicional)(condição) → "If you don't go". 
*MAIN CLAUSE (oração principal)(resultado) → "I'll be alone!"

❑ TYPES OF CONDITIONAL CLAUSES:

Didaticamente, há 04(quatro) tipos de CONDITIONAL CLAUSES.
* Condicional TIPO ZERO
* Condicional TIPO 1

* Condicional TIPO 2

* Condicional TIPO 3

❑ Conditional Type ZERO(IF+Present, Present):

*Example:

"If you press the bottom, the machine starts to work!"
(Se você pressionar o fundo, a máquina começa a funcionar!)

❑ Conditional Type 1(IF+Present, Base Form+WILL)

*Example:

"If you eat too much, you'll be sick!"
(Se você comer demais, ficaras doente!")

5) Conditional Type 2(IF+Past,  WOULD + Base Form):

*Example:

"If I had time I would do that for you!"
(Se eu tivesse tempo, faria isso por você!)

6) Conditional Type 3(IF+Past Perfect, WOULD HAVE+Participle Past):

*Example:

"If we had stayed at home, we could have see him!"
(Se tivéssemos ficado em casa, poderíamos tê-lo visto!)

QUESTÕES COM GABARITO

01 – (UECE-2010/2-VESTIBULAR-2ª FASE)

Sheila would have gone to the party if she...
A) knows about it.
B) had known about it.
C) has known about it.
D) will know about it.

 👍  Comentários e Gabarito   B 

TÓPICO - CONDICIONAL TIPO 3 (WOULD HAVE+ PARTICÍPIO PASSADO → IF + Past Perfect):

• WOULD HAVE GONE  → if had known.

• Sheila would have gone to the party if she had known about it.  – Sheila teria ido à festa se soubesse.

• NOTA IMPORTANTE: Quando a oração começar com a conjunção if, devemos separá-la da próxima frase com a vírgula. 

02 – (UEL-1995)

If you don't go, _____ very angry.

a) I feel
b) I am
c) I was
d) I'll be
e) I have been

 👍  Comentários e Gabarito   D 

TÓPICO - CONDICIONAL TIPO 1 (If + Present → WILL + base form):

• If you don't go →  WILL BE.

• If you don't go, I'll be very angry.  – Se você não for, ficarei muito bravo.

03 – (CESGRANRIO-1991)

Mark the item that shows the correct ending to the following sentence:
If the process happens each time we eat sugar, we:
a) will have dental problems.
b) would have dental problems.
c) would have had dental problems.
d) could have dental problems.
e) may have had dental problems.

 👍  Comentários e Gabarito   A 

TÓPICO - CONDICIONAL TIPO 1 (If + Present → WILL + base form):

• If the process happens each time we eat sugar →  WILL HAVE...

• If the process happens each time we eat sugar, we will have dental problems.  –  Se o processo acontecer cada vez que ingerirmos açúcar, teremos problemas dentários.

04 – (UECE-2011/2-VESTIBULAR-2ª FASE)

If all the digitally savvy undergraduates could have the chance to choose, they...
A) would prefer to have 3D Shakespeare productions.
B) have just preferred having 3D Shakespeare productions.
C) will prefer to have 3D Shakespeare productions.
D) will really have preferred 3D Shakespeare productions.

👍 Gabarito   A 

05 – (UNESP-1991)

Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna da frase a seguir:
If he put it this way, everybody __________ with him.
a) would agree
b) should have agreed
c) will agree
d) would has agreed
e) agreeded

👍 Gabarito   A 

06 – (ITA-SP-1997)

Lady Astor MP:
"If you (I) my husband I (II) poison your coffee".
Churchill:
"If you (III) my wife I (IV) drink it."
– Os termos que melhor preenchem as lacunas I, II, III e IV são:
a) were (I), would (II), were (III), had (IV).
b) was (I), would (II), was (III), would (IV).
c) were (I), had (II), were (III), had (IV).
d) was (I), could (II), was (III), would (IV).
e) were (I), would (II), were (III), would (IV).

👍 Gabarito   E 

07 – (ITA-SP-1996)

"__________ just call our 24-Hour Card Replacement, and we'll have a new one in your hands usually by the end of the next business day."
No texto acima omitiu-se uma oração. Preencha-a com a opção que representa a melhor redação:
a) If you need a lost or stolen card replaced
b) If you need replace a lost or stolen card
c) If a lost or stolen card needs to replace
d) If it is needed to replace a lost or stolen card
e) If a lost or stolen card needs to be replaced by us

👍 Gabarito   A 

08 – (MACKENZIE-SP-1996)

Indicate the alternative that best completes the following sentence:
"If you had taken my advice, you __________."
(A) would learned the lesson
(B) would have learnt the lesson
(C) should learned the lesson
(D) would learn the lesson
(E) should understand the lesson

👍 Gabarito   B 

09 – (ITA-SP-1998)

Leia a seguir o comentário publicado pela revista
NEWSWEEK:
"He had lots of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he __________ a little Jew he __________ it out".
Singer Courtney Love, on the suicide of her rock-star husband, Kurt Cobain.
– As lacunas (I) e (II) do comentário anterior devem ser preenchidas, respectivamente, por:
a) I. had had, II. would have stuck
b) I. has had, II. would stick
c) I. have had, II. had had stuck
d) I. had had, II. had stuck
e) I. had, II. would stuck
👍 Gabarito   A 

10 – (UFRGS-1996)

The alternative that does not finish the sentence "If it rains we..." correctly is:
a) couldn't go out.
b) won't go out.
c) mustn't go out.
d) shouldn't go out.
e) can't go out.

👍 Gabarito   A