• 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...
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  • sentence’s main clause is conditional on a subordinate clause. A full conditional thus contains two clauses: the subordinate clause, called the antecedent...
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    condition clauses can also be formulated using inversion without any conjunction; see § Inversion in condition clauses below. The consequent clause, expressing...
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  • 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...
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  • already at the gates' For other examples of this see Latin conditional clauses#Conditional clauses of comparison. In indirect questions in a historic context...
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  • 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)...
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    constructions in condition clauses and certain other dependent clauses is described below under § Conditional sentences and § Dependent clauses. The modal verbs...
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  • 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...
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  • occur most often, although not exclusively, in subordinate clauses, particularly that-clauses. Examples of the subjunctive in English are found in the sentences...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Sequence of tenses (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    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...
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  • esset). Interleaved with these are two conditional clauses (sī esset ... sī velit) and two relative clauses (quās possidēret ... quam vīcisset), all...
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    tense and aspectual forms in condition and conditional clauses follows special patterns; see conditional mood. For use of tenses in indirect speech,...
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  • appears in a dependent clause separated from the independent one by the complementizer que ("that"), but not all dependent clauses require it. When the...
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    (then-clause) of counterfactual conditional sentences. The modal would (or should as a first-person alternative) is used to produce the conditional construction...
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  • 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...
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    form in related languages, especially Old English and Latin. This includes conditional clauses, wishes, and reported speech. Modern descriptive grammars...
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  • 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...
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  • he comes." A conditional clause gives the condition under which something will happen. In Irish there are two kinds of conditional clauses, depending on...
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  • Participle (redirect from Participle clause)
    periphrastic verb forms (continuous and perfect) and are widely used in adverbial clauses. In non-Indo-European languages, 'participle' has been applied to forms...
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    English prepositions (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    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...
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  • and gerund phrases, in certain positions; certain clauses, such as that clauses and content clauses like what he said, in certain positions. A system...
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    obligatory use of present tense with future meaning in some dependent clauses.) When the expression of futurity is combined with that of some modality...
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  • such clauses may become commonplace, such as when online ebook retailers contract with publishers for the supply of e-books. Use of such clauses, in some...
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    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...
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  • subjunctive form is used in both clauses of "if [imaginary situation]...then..." sentences, and is often used in subordinate clauses. There are various modal...
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  • independent clauses (but also has other functions, such as contrary-to-fact expressions in the present). In dependent clauses (purpose, temporal, conditional, and...
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    subordinate clauses using various conjunctions: In Sabaic, relative clauses are marked by a Relativiser like ḏ-, ʾl, mn-; in free relative clauses this marking...
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  • Indirect speech (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    like chocolate") German indirect speech consists formally of dependent clauses depending on a verb of saying, holding, thinking or the like, but they...
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