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The Connectors and What They Claim
Eight cards. Two of them are sentences that look wrong and are not.
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Learner uses unless to mean if not, and stops adding a second negative to it.
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Eight cards. Two of them are sentences that look wrong and are not.
Six sentences using unless. Two of them are fine.
Which is correct?
Substitute it, keep the verb present, and two positive cousins.
Unless the government acts …
= if the government does not act …
Put the words in and the sentence still works.
✗ Unless the government does not act …
Now you have two negatives, and the sentence means the opposite of what you wrote.
Eight connectors, four meanings. Several share one.
Terms
Definitions
Ten rewrites. Eight go one way, two go back.
If the government does not act, the crisis will worsen. → , the crisis will worsen.
If you do not study, you will fail. → , you will fail.
If prices do not fall, demand will stay flat. → , demand will stay flat.
If funding does not arrive, the project closes. → , the project closes.
The match goes ahead if it does not rain. → The match goes ahead .
If the law does not pass, nothing changes. → , nothing changes.
If attitudes do not change, the policy will fail. → , the policy will fail.
I will start if he does not come. → I will start .
Unless demand falls, the factory stays open. → , the factory stays open.
The scheme continues unless funding stops. → The scheme continues .
Ten sentences. In case is not doing what if does.
Sort each item into the correct category
Two sentences that half-agree with an argument.
Argument to half-accept: city centres should be closed to private cars.
Sentence 1: use unless. Sentence 2: use as long as or provided that.
Do not simply agree or disagree. Attach a condition to it.
One per line.