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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Will be would

Don't ever try to connect your phone with the lapto. If you did, your phone would get frozen.

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Don't ever try to connect your phone with the lapto. If you do, your phone will get frozen.

What's the exact difference in meaning? Also are those sentences correct with will and would? Thank you.
  

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Anonymous Don't ever try This is an imperative, which is not hypothetical. Therefore, you need the non-hypothetical follow-up: If you do, your phone will get frozen. CJ

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Don't ever try This is an imperative, which is not hypothetical.
  • Therefore, you need the non-hypothetical follow-up: If you do, your phone will get frozen.
  • CJ
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AnonymousDon't ever try
This is an imperative, which is not hypothetical. Therefore, you need the non-hypothetical follow-up:

If you do, your phone will get frozen.

CJ
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CalifJim AnonymousDon't ever tryThis is an imperative, which is not hypothetical. Therefore, you need the non-hypothetical follow-up:If you do, your phone will get frozen.CJ
let me compare my sentence with this sentence?
Don't vote trump. If you voted for Trump and he won, he would deport all illegal immigrants.

This is sentence and the sentence
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CalifJim AnonymousDon't ever try This is an imperative, which is not hypothetical. Therefore, you need the non-hypothetical follow-up:If you do, your phone will get frozen.CJ
I don't agree.

The degree of likelihood in the conditional sentence has nothing to do with the preceding imperative. If you did, your phone would get frozen and If you
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Hmm. Don't X. If you did, ... sounds odd to my ear.

CJ
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