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Khoshtip Posted 11 years ago
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This sentence seems to be of the conditional forms but its structure does not match.
1- This option (some option) is relevant only if you have overridden the table data.

Go or going, which one, in the blank in the following sentence?
2- Chan would rather, if it's all right with everyone, cook dinner than ... out.

I have trouble with the word "lasted" at the end of this sentence. It seems to be the past participle of last but what it means there I'm not sure.
3-The trick is to sort the least significant column first and proceed until the most significant column is sorted lasted.
  

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khoshtip This sentence seems to be of the conditional forms but its structure does not match. 1- This option (some option) is relevant only if you have overridden the table data. It may not match the four commonly taught conditional structures (0-3), but it's still correct and natural.

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  • khoshtip This sentence seems to be of the conditional forms but its structure does not match.
  • 1- This option (some option) is relevant only if you have overridden the table data.
  • It may not match the four commonly taught conditional structures (0-3), but it's still correct and natural.
  • khoshtip cook dinner than go out.
  • " However, it is redundant.
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khoshtipThis sentence seems to be of the conditional forms but its structure does not match.
1- This option (some option) is relevant only if you have overridden the table data.
It may not match the four commonly taught conditional structures (0-3), but it's still correct and natural.
khoshtip cook
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Thanks for your opinions.
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khoshtipThis sentence seems to be of the conditional forms but its structure does not match. 1- This option (some option) is relevant only if you have overridden the table data.
Hmm. I'd call this a first conditional. I include the present perfect with the present as a possible tense in the main clause of a first conditional. I don't consider the addition o
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CalifJimI'd call all three above "first conditionals". Because there is no "will", some people call these "zero conditionals". Use whatever terminology is used in your textbook or your class work.
Yeah, you are right. That's you that call that a pattern of conditional forms, not the/my book(s)!
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This is the question #2. All of you omitted it!

Go or going, which one, in the blank in the following sentence?
2- Chan would rather, if it's all right with everyone, cook dinner than ... out.
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I recall the time when I asked MM about prepositions. He said, the verb (e.g., here go) gets the -ing ending when a preposition (e.g., here than) precedes it. And it's essentially always that way.
PS: The "to" is an exception.
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khoshtipI recall the time when I asked MM about prepositions. He said, the verb (e.g., here go) gets the -ing ending when a preposition (e.g., here than) precedes it. And it's essentially always that way. PS: The "to" is an exception.
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CJ
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When I said "to is an exception" I didn't mean the word after it can not be a gerund. I meant it has some exceptional situation.
Anyway, that link was helpful, especially the Cool Breeze's post. Thanks.

The question was about the than.
If it's a preposition, why the verb after it (go) hasn't gotten the -ing ending (in teechr's point of view)?
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khoshtipThe question was about the than. If it's a preposition, why hasn't the verb after it (go) hasn't gotten got the -ing ending (in teechr's point of view)?
Have a look at the Cambridge Dictionary's "point of view" here:
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