Conditional clauses in Latin are clauses which start with the conjunction sī 'if' or the equivalent. The 'if'-clause in a conditional sentence is known...

sentence’s main clause is conditional on a subordinate clause. A full conditional thus contains two clauses: the subordinate clause, called the antecedent...

condition clauses can also be formulated using inversion without any conjunction; see § Inversion in condition clauses below. The consequent clause, expressing...

to a distinct verb form that expresses the conditional set of circumstances proper in the dependent clause or protasis (e.g. in Turkish or Azerbaijani)...

Conditional clauses in Ancient Greek are clauses which start with εἰ (ei) "if" or ἐάν (eān) "if (it may be)". ἐάν (eān) can be contracted to ἤν (ḗn) or...

already at the gates' For other examples of this see Latin conditional clauses#Conditional clauses of comparison. In indirect questions in a historic context...

out of the city" Clauses like the above are sometimes known as "clauses of equivalent action", since the action of the temporal clause is equivalent to...

condition clauses and some other dependent clauses referring to hypothetical circumstances (see § Conditional sentences and § Dependent clauses below),...

occur most often, although not exclusively, in subordinate clauses, particularly that-clauses. Examples of the subjunctive in English are found in the sentences...

form in related languages, especially Old English and Latin. This includes conditional clauses, wishes, and reported speech. Modern descriptive grammars...

to the sequence of tenses rule (see Latin tenses#Sequence of tenses rule). For example, verbs in conditional clauses do not usually follow the rule: dic...

tense and aspectual forms in condition and conditional clauses follows special patterns; see conditional mood. For use of tenses in indirect speech,...

esset). Interleaved with these are two conditional clauses (sī esset ... sī velit) and two relative clauses (quās possidēret ... quam vīcisset), all...

would buy a house if I earned a lot of money". Irish has conditional marking in both clauses: d'íosfadh 'would eat, would have eaten' and beadh 'would...

appears in a dependent clause separated from the independent one by the complementizer que ("that"), but not all dependent clauses require it. When the...

In the Romance languages, the conditional form is used primarily in the apodosis (main clause) of conditional clauses, and in a few set phrases where...

(then-clause) of counterfactual conditional sentences. The modal would (or should as a first-person alternative) is used to produce the conditional construction...

present is used in subordinate clauses whose main clauses are in a present or future tense, as well as in the few main clauses that use the subjunctive, and...

he comes." A conditional clause gives the condition under which something will happen. In Irish there are two kinds of conditional clauses, depending on...

periphrastic verb forms (continuous and perfect) and are widely used in adverbial clauses. In non-Indo-European languages, 'participle' has been applied to forms...

to be final more often in subordinate clauses than in main clauses. Over the centuries, verb-final main clauses became less common. In the writing of...

a variety of kinds of clauses as complements. Most often, they take finite clauses as complements.: 153–158  These finite clause complements can be declarative...

of the subjunctive mood in Latin is to indicate that the words are quoted; this applies for example to subordinate clauses in indirect speech: locum ubi...

obligatory use of present tense with future meaning in some dependent clauses.) When the expression of futurity is combined with that of some modality...

subjunctive form is used in both clauses of "if [imaginary situation]...then..." sentences, and is often used in subordinate clauses. There are various modal...

In Latin, there are different modes of indicating past, present and future processes. There is the basic mode of free clauses and there are multiple dependent...

standard grammar of the language. In Late Latin writings, ille was often used by writers in relative clauses to establish the identity of subjects not...

content clauses, i.e. that clauses and certain others: certain that he was right, unsure where they are; after comparatives, phrases or clauses with than:...

subordinate clauses using various conjunctions: In Sabaic, relative clauses are marked by a Relativiser like ḏ-, ʾl, mn-; in free relative clauses this marking...

The Latin numerals are the words used to denote numbers within the Latin language. They are essentially based on their Proto-Indo-European ancestors, and...