condition clause

However there are certain situations where will can appear in a condition clause.

The last is an example of the use of will in a condition clause (for more such cases, see below).

He blamed the conditioning clauses the Yankees wanted in the contract.

If they do this now, they will still be subject to the pre-existing conditions clause.

It may appear before or after the condition clause:

Would like and could are sometimes used in condition clauses for politeness:

This form can be used to make an inverted condition clause without a conjunction:

The companies dropping the pre-existing conditions clause have not raised their prices, but all have set one condition and sometimes more.

More commonly, will appears used in condition clauses where it has a modal meaning, rather than marking the future.

Reform-related news stories often highlighted the hardship caused by pre-existing condition clauses.

The condition clause can undergo inversion, with omission of the conjunction:

However other types (such as inversion in condition clauses) are specific to subordinate clauses.

Otherwise, the condition clause in a first conditional pattern is not normally formed with a modal verb, other than can.

Here the condition clause is in the past perfect, and the consequence is expressed using the conditional perfect.

The construction also appears in condition clauses:

(Pre-existing condition clauses are part of virtually all health-insurance plans.)

The major requirement for waiving the pre-existing conditions clause is that the insurance be bought within one day of the first deposit for a trip.

In this case it is effectively the main clause, rather than the dependent condition clause, that expresses a "condition".

He was under his employer's pre-existing condition clause when he developed coronary artery disease, needing a second transplant.

If you feel hungry, ... (usual condition clause; present tense with future meaning)

If you should feel hungry, ... (should form of the condition clause)

The Commercial Union Insurance Company in Boston is among those that have dropped the pre-existing conditions clause.

The most common example of this is in condition clauses, where inversion is accompanied by the omission of the conjunction if.

Certain condition clauses (if-clauses) can be cast without any conjunction such as if or unless, instead using subject-auxiliary inversion to indicate their meaning.

In English conditional sentences, the condition clause (protasis) is a dependent clause, most commonly introduced by the conjunction if.