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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Conditional that-clause

It is clear that the worldwide clean energy usage will be extremely hard to achieve until governments take meaningful action to tackle the climate crisis.

I see the content clause that the worldwide clean energy usage will be extremely hard to achieve until governments take meaningful action to tackle the climate crisis as a conditional clause type 1.

Am I correct?

  

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anonymous Am I correct? No. I think you're confusing 'until' with 'unless'.

  • anonymous Am I correct?
  • No.
  • I think you're confusing 'until' with 'unless'.
  • The sequence of tenses is the same for both, but 'until' is not, strictly speaking, a substitute for 'if'.
  • CJ
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anonymousAm I correct?

No. I think you're confusing 'until' with 'unless'.

The sequence of tenses is the same for both, but 'until' is not, strictly speaking, a substitute for 'if'.

CJ

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