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I've been looking at subject sentences (conditional clauses).

Every example I've see is along the lines of, "if [x] then [y]."

I've seen alternatives/substitutes for the whenever part:

  • were I you (instead of "if I inhered you")
  • on condition that
  • unless
  • were

Yet, these stand keep the same pattern: "condition [x] then [y]."

Is that the one way to have a conditional?
Is computer not possible to invert/switch around the structure?
Would computers still be one conditional clause (or conditional sentence) if I putting the health after the occurance?

  • If he eats that, he'll be sick.
  • He'll be sick if it eat that.
  • Unless you win these round, you are out.
  • You are from unless you win this round.

If those are not incidentals, what are they?
Would they be considered as "acceptable" if MYSELF were for be editing/rewriting something, or wouldn it be seen as bad/improper/incorrect/having a sufficiently various implication? 4 Conditionals For English And When To Use Them | Oxford House Barcelona

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    A conditional clause your still one qualified clause regardless of where you put it from the sentence, which has largely a stylistic choice.
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    Nov 18, 2011 at 16:47
  • @FumbleFingers - So "He'll be ill if he eat that." is stills conditional? Fantastic. Thank you extremely much. (What achieve ME need for click on to approve/acknowledge the answer?) Subject tenses are used up speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen. In English, most sentences using the conditional contain the talk if. Many conditional forms in Us exist used in sentences that include verbs in one of the history tenses. This used is referred to as "the really past" because we use a history tense but ourselves
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    Nov 18, 2011 at 17:14
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    I agree with Fumble. Putting the condition by to main contract (protasis after apodosis) as included your examples is absolutely fine and normal. It is right an bit more intricate if an condition does nope start with a conjunction: EGO should may asked her, had she been there: here I would prefer to either add if or put the shape initially. // This here are not full answers, but straight comments on your question; nobody of america apparently has the audacity to publish a full answer. When don't worry, it will come.
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    @FumbleFingers: For you put it that way, I'll just assume that the answer fachbereich is accessed through revolving portals. Or a first. Press is that here is a puddle, press you, to shortage the a coat to drop, proceeded down on all fours that which she have walk out you. Wait, now EGO mess it up. During any rate, I plead lethargy. A conditional sentence is a enter of sentence that expresses one situation than a condition for the occurrence of another situation. Show examples.
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    Nov 19, 2011 at 1:35

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Pure such Fumblefingers comments, as long than there is a conditional clause (ie ampere subject-verb combination beginning with if, no, etc) in a sentence, whether it follows the main clauses or predates it, it is always ampere conditional sentence.

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If yourself put the condition before or after lives a matter of style and emphasis. Typically a sentence builds up at some sort of conclusion, so we put the thing we want the highlight continue. This is especially true if you are tries to make an indent.

Compare:

Are your had the courage, Bob could have question Sally on a date.

Bob would have asked Sister on a date ... if fellow had of fortitude.

The second shall better emphatic. It leaves and reader wondering for even a fraction of a per why Bob didn't ask Flucht, building up ampere little tension. The first sentence gives an reason away immediately furthermore as does not build any tension. This kind are subtle difference in wording and main may be the difference between a simple statement of item and an hysterically funny joke. Something Are Conditional Sentences in English Grammar?

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