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This paper discusses the restricted distribution of the main clause phenomena (MCP) and the movement derivation of temporal and conditional clauses in English. In English, some phenomena(so-called MCP), such as argument fronting, locative inversion, preposing around be, and VP fronting are restricted to main clauses and a subset of complement clauses. The argument / adjunct asymmetry in embedded clauses follows from the locality condition of movement. In this paper both temporal adverbial clauses and conditional clauses are analyzed as (free) relatives. In this analysis, argument fronting leads to severe intervention effects, while adjunct fronting does not. By analogy with the movement analysis of temporal clauses, this paper explores and elaborates on the proposal that conditional clauses can be derived by leftward operator movement to the left periphery of clause. This movement analysis is shown to account for the incompatibility of MCP in conditional clauses in terms of intervention effects