2. Identifying Conditional Statements
• Cause – effect relationship. Situation A is
necessary for B to happen.
• Some ways to express conditional
relationships:
– Can result
– Whenever
– Providing
– if
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3. Conditional Sentences
• The adverbial clause (the if-clause) expresses
the condition. The main clause (the thenclause) expresses the result. The if clause can
precede or follow the main clause, but usually the CONDITION
precedes the RESULT.
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María Irene Albers de Urriola
M. In Applied Linguistics
Specialization Computer Technology in
Education