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Wangqh2696122 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

If or while?


Tom: I may go to the market this afternoon?
Mary:Could you please buy some fruit for me ___ you are there?
A. while B. if
  

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Sorry, wrongly typed punctuation mark. Correction: Tom: I may go to the market this afternoon. Mary: ___ you are there, could you please buy some fruit for me?

— Anonymous

  • Sorry, wrongly typed punctuation mark.
  • Correction: Tom: I may go to the market this afternoon.
  • Mary: ___ you are there, could you please buy some fruit for me?
  • A.
  • while B.
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Sorry, wrongly typed punctuation mark. Correction:

Tom: I may go to the market this afternoon.
Mary: ___ you are there, could you please buy some fruit for me?
A. while B. if
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Why can't Mary say:

Tom: I may go to the market this afternoon.
Mary: If you are there, could you please buy some fruit for me?
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It's not really wrong, but if you wanted to use "if" it would be more common to say, "If you go, could you please buy some fruit for me? of " or "If you do, ..."
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