colon starting on the next linean indented block of code (called the if clausefor examplelet' say you have some code that checks to see whether someone' name is alice (pretend name was assigned some value earlier if name ='alice'print('hialice 'all flow control statements end with colon and are followed by new block of code (the clausethis if statement' clause is the block with print('hialice 'figure - shows what flowchart of this code would look like start name ='alicetrue print('hialice 'false end figure - the flowchart for an if statement else statements an if clause can optionally be followed by an else statement the else clause is executed only when the if statement' condition is false in plain englishan else statement could be read as"if this condition is trueexecute this code or elseexecute that code an else statement doesn' have conditionand in codean else statement always consists of the followingthe else keyword colon starting on the next linean indented block of code (called the else clauseflow control