ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the syntax and sentence structure. Since the person of the subject is included in a Persian verb as a conjugational suffix, a Persian sentence in its simplest form can be just a verb. The verb is expected to be placed at the end of the sentence. The chapter introduces some categories of complex sentences. Conditionals are 'if-then' statements. Persian has two major categories of conditionals: indicative and counterfactual. Indicative conditionals involve different degrees of doubt and uncertainty; they are about things that may or may not be true, may or may not happen. In Persian, adverb clauses with time expressions are usually the first clause in a complex sentence, followed by the main clause. Indirect speech in Persian has a golden rule: it is not how the sentence starts that determine what tense learners should use it is rather the tense of the verb in the original sentence, as they think it was originally said.
