This is the last post in the series of posts on conditional clauses and conditional sentences. The reason why so much emphasis is being laid upon the knowledge and concept of conditionals is that they are used extensively in the reading comprehension and verbal reasoning sections.

Conditional Clauses with the Past Perfect (unfulfilled conditions in the Past)

These types of conditional clauses contain a condition that was not fulfilled in the past. In such clauses, the past perfect form of the verb is used. The simple past form indicates an unreal or unlikely condition in the present or future point of time. The past perfect shows an unfulfilled condition in the past. Read more…

Knowledge about conditional clauses and their use in sentences comes in handy while solving the sentence completion, sentence correction, reading comprehension and the analytical writing part of the GRE exam.  Basically, conditionals form an important part of the English language and since GRE exam gives so much importance to English and verbal ability, it is important that you know the conditional clauses and their uses in the sentences well. Read more…

In my last post, I had put up two analytical reasoning questions and answer options. If you found any difficulty solving either of them, then here are a few tips that can help you in deriving the answers. I am going to illustrate the solution Read more…