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Dileepa Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

How to ask to do something with conditionals

I need to tell someone if I do not answer the phone, please call my friend tomorrow. Please someone tell me whether following sentences are correct grammatically and natural.


If I do not answer the phone, please call my friend, tomorrow.


If I seldom, if ever, miss a call, can I tell it like following sentence?

If I did not answer the phone, please call my friend, tomorrow.

If I did not answer the phone, you could call my friend tomorrow.


I would really appreciate it if someone could provide me with feedback on the grammatically accuracy of above sentences. In addition, please let me know, if there are other methods to give instruction to someone depending on some conditions. Furthermore, is it possible to apply normal conditional theories such as first, second, third and mixed under such circumstance?

  

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dileepa If I do not answer the phone, please call my friend, tomorrow. I would delete the comma after "friend". Otherwise this sentence is OK, provided that "do not answer the phone" is restricted to today.

  • dileepa If I do not answer the phone, please call my friend, tomorrow.
  • I would delete the comma after "friend".
  • Otherwise this sentence is OK, provided that "do not answer the phone" is restricted to today.
  • dileepa If I seldom, if ever, miss a call, can I tell it like following sentence?
  • If I did not answer the phone, please call my friend, tomorrow.
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dileepaIf I do not answer the phone, please call my friend, tomorrow.

I would delete the comma after "friend". Otherwise this sentence is OK, provided that "do not answer the phone" is restricted to today.

dileepaIf I seldom, if ever, miss a call, can I tell it like following sentence?
If I did not answer the phone, please c

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