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Tomchin Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Question for "if" and "Should".

Can i use "If" to replace "should" at the sentence below.

Please precautions, should you have come in contact with her.
Please precautions, If you have come in contact with her.

please advice..
  

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Yes, you can do that. Unfortunately, your sentence has no verb. Please use/take precautions, if/should you come in contact with her.

  • Yes, you can do that.
  • Unfortunately, your sentence has no verb.
  • Please use/take precautions, if/should you come in contact with her.
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Yes, you can do that.

Unfortunately, your sentence has no verb.

Please use/take precautions, if/should you come in contact with her.

. . . . . If you should come in contact with her also works.

Your use of the perfect tense is a little awkward without some prior context. You're saying that if you have come in contact with her in th
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Please precautions, should you have come in contact with her.
Please precautions, If you have come in contact with her.

whether the "Should" and the "if" above contain the same meaning?
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Yes, they do in my book.

I hope you understand that "Please precautions" is not an acceptable main clause. You may skip the subject in an imperative sentence (Please rise.), but you may not skip the verb.
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ok. Thanks for your reply. I will take note on the main clause. do you mean to said that both sentence are the condition sentences?

|-------main clause---|,|--------------If Clause------------------|

1.Please take precautions, should you have come in contact with her.
2.Please take precautions, If you have come in contact with her.
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ok. Thanks for your reply. I will take note on the main clause. do you mean to said that both sentence are the condition sentences?
main clause If Clause
1.<Please take precautions>,<should you have come in contact with her>.
2.<Please take precautions>, <If you have come in contact with her>.
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Yes, both are conditional.

Note that in the expression "Do you mean to say," the infinitive "to say" does not have a tense, and always appears in the base form.

Best regards, - A.
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Continue the above statement..

As I know , the condition sentence will have a main clause and If clause. the sentence structure would be shown as below..

If Clause, main clause
1. <If....> , <I will......>.

In my case, this is the sentence that i don't understand.. whether this is it correct? as they are condition sentence.

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If I am wrong, please correct me. (This is a good example.)
The main clause is imperative, like the one you're working on.

Your analysis seems to be correct.

You've realized that your original sentence is in reverse order. There's nothing wrong with that.

You may take some flak because the meaning of the sen

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