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Conditional conjunctions allow us to talk about things that will happen if another one is previously fulfilled. They express that a certain circumstance must happen in order for another one to be fulfilled or not.
Conditional Conjunctions
In the English language, there are a series of words that allow you to speak in a conditional way to express what will happen, or not, if other events happen before, or of events that happened as a consequence of other previous events. Some of these words are already familiar to you:
- If
- Unless
- As long as
- Provided
- Seeing that
- Given that
- Regardless of
- In light of
- Considering that
Let's look at some examples:
- We will be able to increase our sales in these months if we manage to acquire new suppliers.
- Unless the supplier agrees to this price, we won't be able to continue with our expansion plan.
- There will be an added bonus as long as everyone on the team completes the project.
- Unless management gets back to us today with the results, we'll be falling behind!
Let's look at examples from the roleplay:
- As long as we keep our loyal customers engaged with our new products through social media, we probably don't have to send them emails, right?
- Seeing that our investment in the social media and inbound marketing team has proven so successful, I'd say we should focus entirely on that strategy.
This advanced vocabulary is ideal for analyzing facts and creating working strategies to indicate which path the team will take depending on the facts.
It is very important to be able to express condition when constructing sentences and to be able to talk about one thing depending on another. If is the first conditional we all learn and the easiest to use. You can expand your vocabulary and take it to another level by using a number of other words that also express condition.
Contributed by: Kevin Fiorentino (Platzi Contributor).
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