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  2. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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    "First conditional" or "conditional I" refers to a pattern used in predictive conditional sentences, i.e. those that concern consequences of a probable future event (see Types of conditional sentence). In the basic first conditional pattern, the condition is expressed using the present tense (having future meaning in this context).

  3. Conditional sentence - Wikipedia

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    A conditional sentence is a sentence in a natural language that expresses that one thing is contingent on another, e.g., "If it rains, the picnic will be cancelled." They are so called because the impact of the sentence’s main clause is conditional on a subordinate clause.

  4. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    A "first conditional" sentence expresses a future circumstance conditional on some other future circumstance. It uses the present tense (with future reference) in the condition clause, and the future with will (or some other expression of future) in the main clause: If he comes late, I will be angry. A "second conditional" sentence expresses a ...

  5. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements.For example, in the conditional statement: "If P then Q", Q is necessary for P, because the truth of Q is guaranteed by the truth of P.

  6. If and only if - Wikipedia

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    The corresponding logical symbols are "", "", [6] and , [10] and sometimes "iff".These are usually treated as equivalent. However, some texts of mathematical logic (particularly those on first-order logic, rather than propositional logic) make a distinction between these, in which the first, ↔, is used as a symbol in logic formulas, while ⇔ is used in reasoning about those logic formulas ...

  7. Steve Bannon pleads guilty to defrauding donors in private ...

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    Bannon pleaded guilty to one state felony count of a scheme to defraud in the first degree and was sentenced to a three-year conditional discharge. He will not serve any time in prison, nor will ...

  8. Bird flu vaccine gets ‘conditional license’ from USDA ...

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    A New Jersey pharmaceutical company has received a “a conditional license" for its bird flu vaccine for use in chickens. ... The company first worked on developing bird flu vaccines in 2001 and ...

  9. Why Bill Gates Is Telling All About Life Before His Billions ...

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    After the first draft, by his own account, he “just wasn’t happy with it,” he says. Some parts were “way too detailed,” others weren’t “detailed enough” and, overall, he didn't ...