Conditional clause
"After being given a “broad brush approach” presentation at a Brussels summit of May’s long-awaited paper, yet to be signed off by her warring British cabinet, the taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, told her that unless the final document presented a departure from the UK government’s thinking over the last two years, it would be dead on arrival."
(The Guardian.)
Is unless the final document presented a departure from the UK government’s thinking over the last two years, it would be dead on arrival a type-2 conditional clause back-shifted from the type-1 conditional one in the sentence above?
Top answer
] it will be dead on arrival".
- ] it will be dead on arrival".
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Yes, that's the general idea, but we don't know how much the reporter has paraphrased this, so we don't know whether Varadkar's words were exactly "Unless the final document presents a departure [...] it will be dead on arrival".
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