Conditional sentence verb tense
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Is it correct to say:
The article was added to the study if a response was received (from the corresponding author; mentioned in the previous sentence).
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The point is, I cannot detect the type of this conditional sentence.
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Bahareh M The point is, I cannot detect the type of this conditional sentence. It's not one of the numbered conditionals. It's all past tense without "would".
- Bahareh M The point is, I cannot detect the type of this conditional sentence.
- It's not one of the numbered conditionals.
- It's all past tense without "would".
- That makes it the past tense of a first conditional, so it simply shows a regular and systematic connection between two occurrences.
- In these kinds of statements a "when" or "whenever" is just as good as an "if".
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Bahareh MThe point is, I cannot detect the type of this conditional sentence.
It's not one of the numbered conditionals. It's all past tense without "would". That makes it the past tense of a first conditional, so it simply shows a regular and systematic connection between two occurrences. In these kinds of statements a "when" or "whenever" is just as go
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