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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
A adverbial clause including a adverbial cluase
See the following sentence; 'when~'clause include 'if~' clause, and subjective clause is followed
I'd like to know whether the structure like that is OK.
When I go out with my girlfriend tomorrow if it rains, I will surely blame the sky.
In advance, thank you for your help^^
I'd like to know whether the structure like that is OK.
When I go out with my girlfriend tomorrow if it rains, I will surely blame the sky.
In advance, thank you for your help^^
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u should use if on place of while
- u should use if on place of while
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Put a comma after "tomorrow" or (better, in my opinion), switch the order: If it rains when I go out with my girlfriend tomorrow, I will surely blame the sky.
Ignore the illiterate post by the anonymous user. It's dangerous to take grammatical advice from someone who eschews any sort of capitalization and uses text abbreviations.
Ignore the illiterate post by the anonymous user. It's dangerous to take grammatical advice from someone who eschews any sort of capitalization and uses text abbreviations.
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Thank you Ms.BabaraPA for your accounts and sincere advice.
Could I hear from you about the clause order among the adverbial clauses?
Could I hear from you about the clause order among the adverbial clauses?
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When I go out with my girlfriend tomorrow if it rains, I will surely blame the sky.
This sounds odd and is hard to interpret. It sounds like you will only go out with her if it rains, which seems strange..
If it rains when I go out with my girlfriend tomorrow, I will surely blame the sky.
This is fine.
This sounds odd and is hard to interpret. It sounds like you will only go out with her if it rains, which seems strange..
If it rains when I go out with my girlfriend tomorrow, I will surely blame the sky.
This is fine.
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Can you be more specific?
You seem to like rules. I'm not good at giving rules. Sometimes things work in one context and what looks like the same structure will not work in another.
The "when" expresses certainty. When I do something = it's just about certain I will (future) or it's certain that I do (present).
The "if" is of course conditional - possible. You can talk about
You seem to like rules. I'm not good at giving rules. Sometimes things work in one context and what looks like the same structure will not work in another.
The "when" expresses certainty. When I do something = it's just about certain I will (future) or it's certain that I do (present).
The "if" is of course conditional - possible. You can talk about
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Thank you Clive and BabaraPA for your valuable accounts for me^^
If you are OK, I'd like to ask other examples.
Because I can not hear from you now, you might be sleeping this time, I post my examples.
1) Because it is very cold if it snow tomorrow, the road is going to be very icy for snow not to melt.
2) When we arrived at Alaska even though it started snowing heavily,
If you are OK, I'd like to ask other examples.
Because I can not hear from you now, you might be sleeping this time, I post my examples.
1) Because it is very cold if it snow tomorrow, the road is going to be very icy for snow not to melt.
2) When we arrived at Alaska even though it started snowing heavily,
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Let's see... "when we arrived in Alaska" could be said to be answering the question "When did it start snowing heavily?" Right?
And if we want to tell someone when it started snowing, we can add that to the end of our "start snowing" clause. For example: "It started snowing heavily last night."
"It started snowing heavily yesterday."
...and we could also say:
"It started
And if we want to tell someone when it started snowing, we can add that to the end of our "start snowing" clause. For example: "It started snowing heavily last night."
"It started snowing heavily yesterday."
...and we could also say:
"It started
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park sang joon1)Because it is very cold if it snow tomorrow, the road is going to be very icy for snow not to melt.2) When we arrived at Alaska even though it started snowing heavily, we continued our expedition.From what I gathered of your posts, you seemed to be confused with using 'if
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Thank you Mr.grammarfreak for your sincere concern.
I see what you mean.
However, If I divide a sentence into several parts, I'm afraid I look like childish.
In addition, then, are all of my examples ungrammatical, or are those kinda clumsy?
I see what you mean.
However, If I divide a sentence into several parts, I'm afraid I look like childish.
In addition, then, are all of my examples ungrammatical, or are those kinda clumsy?
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