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Gökhan Karataş

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May 16, 2015, 4:11:32 AM5/16/15
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Hi everybody im learning English and i have a english homework. I need rewrite this sentences in If Clause Type 1,2,3. Can you rewrite for me. I need your helps. Thank you for everything..

1-Dad may get a pay-rise next month.In that case,he'll buy me a computer.

2-I coulnt get that jar down for you because I was about eight centimeters too short.

3-I haven't got any money, so I can't buy those boots.

4-Jayne had to leave now, so I had to type the report myself

5-I may finish this book this evening, and then I'll lend it to you

6-We didn't live in a villa by the sea, so we didn't go to the beach every day

7-I can't pass strict laws to protect the environment because I'm not the Prime Minister

Gökhan Karataş

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May 16, 2015, 4:28:25 AM5/16/15
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16 Mayıs 2015 Cumartesi 11:11:32 UTC+3 tarihinde Gökhan Karataş yazdı:
Can Anybody help me please? Thank you..

bert

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May 16, 2015, 4:47:15 AM5/16/15
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On Saturday, 16 May 2015 09:28:25 UTC+1, Gökhan Karataş wrote:
> Can Anybody help me please? Thank you..

No, for two reasons.

1. The phrase "If Clause Type 1,2,3" does not have a standard
recognised meaning in English. It must be explained somewhere
else in your course material, but nobody here understands it.

2a. If we do your course work for you here, you will not learn
anything from it.

2b. To learn anything from your course, you will have to do the
work yourself, not get other people here to do it for you.
--

Guy Barry

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May 16, 2015, 4:55:55 AM5/16/15
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"Gökhan Karataş" wrote in message
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>
>Hi everybody im learning English and i have a english homework. I need
>rewrite this sentences in If Clause Type 1,2,3. Can you rewrite for me. I
>need your helps. Thank you for everything..

I don't know what "If Clause Type 1,2,3" means. Can you explain please?

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Guy Barry

Peter Duncanson [BrE]

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May 16, 2015, 5:45:23 AM5/16/15
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On Sat, 16 May 2015 09:55:55 +0100, "Guy Barry"
<guy....@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>"Gökhan Karata?" wrote in message
I think I've found an answwer by searching.

"If Clause" means "Conditional Clause". There are three recognised types
of conditional clause.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conditional2.htm


This uses the term "If Clause". (The writer of may be a German-speaker):
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

Conditional Sentences / If-Clauses Type I, II und III

Conditional Sentence Type 1

> It is possible and also very likely that the condition will be
fulfilled.

Form: if + Simple Present, will-Future

Example: If I find her address, I’ll send her an invitation.

Conditional Sentence Type 2

> It is possible but very unlikely, that the condition will be
fulfilled.

Form: if + Simple Past, Conditional I (= would + Infinitive)

Example: If I found her address, I would send her an invitation.

Conditional Sentence Type 3

> It is impossible that the condition will be fulfilled because it
refers to the past.

Form: if + Past Perfect, Conditional II (= would + have + Past
Participle)

Example: If I had found her address, I would have sent her an
invitation.


--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

Guy Barry

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May 16, 2015, 6:21:20 AM5/16/15
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"Peter Duncanson [BrE]" wrote in message
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>
>On Sat, 16 May 2015 09:55:55 +0100, "Guy Barry"
><guy....@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>"Gökhan Karata?" wrote in message
>>news:08f60cee-647a-497c...@googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>Hi everybody im learning English and i have a english homework. I need
>>>rewrite this sentences in If Clause Type 1,2,3. Can you rewrite for me. I
>>>need your helps. Thank you for everything..
>>
>>I don't know what "If Clause Type 1,2,3" means. Can you explain please?
>
>I think I've found an answwer by searching.
>
>"If Clause" means "Conditional Clause". There are three recognised types
>of conditional clause.
>http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conditional2.htm
>
>
>This uses the term "If Clause". (The writer of may be a German-speaker):
>https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

[explanation snipped]

Thanks. I'm still not sure what the question is asking though. For
instance, one of the sentences is:

"I couldn't get that jar down for you because I was about eight centimeters
too short."

How can that be rewritten as a conditional sentence? I suppose you could
have something like "If I'd been eight centimetres taller, I'd have got the
jar down for you", but that doesn't mean quite the same thing.

--
Guy Barry

Athel Cornish-Bowden

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May 16, 2015, 7:29:52 AM5/16/15
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On 2015-05-16 08:11:30 +0000, Gökhan Karataş said:

I expect your teacher wants you to think this out for yourself, so I
won't try to answer the specific questions. I will, however, draw your
attention to some other problems with your English:

> Hi everybody

"Hi everybody" is too informal, but if you must put it you need
punctuation after it.

> im learning English and i

The pronoun I has capital I, and "I'm" has an apostrophe.

> have a

Words beginning with a vowel sound have "an", not "a".

> english

Names of languages in English have capital initials.

> homework. I need

Add "to" after "need".

> rewrite this

these

> sentences in If Clause Type 1,2,3.

I've no idea what that means.

> Can you rewrite

You need "it" after "rewrite".

> for me. I need your helps.

The word "help" doesn't have a plural (not in that sense, anyway).

> Thank you for everything..

Only one full stop at the end of a sentence.
>
> 1-Dad may get a pay-rise next month.In that case,he'll buy me a computer.

You need spaces after "month." and "case,".

>
> 2-I coulnt

"couldn't"

I think I'll stop there.

> get that jar down for you because I was about eight centimeters too short.
>
> 3-I haven't got any money, so I can't buy those boots.
>
> 4-Jayne had to leave now, so I had to type the report myself
>
> 5-I may finish this book this evening, and then I'll lend it to you
>
> 6-We didn't live in a villa by the sea, so we didn't go to the beach every day
>
> 7-I can't pass strict laws to protect the environment because I'm not
> the Prime Minister


--
athel

Snidely

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May 17, 2015, 4:09:19 AM5/17/15
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Remember Saturday, when Athel Cornish-Bowden asked plainitively:
> On 2015-05-16 08:11:30 +0000, Gökhan Karataş said:
>
> I expect your teacher wants you to think this out for yourself, so I won't
> try to answer the specific questions. I will, however, draw your attention to
> some other problems with your English:
>
>> Hi everybody
>
> "Hi everybody" is too informal, but if you must put it you need punctuation
> after it.
>

"if you must put it"? I'd say, "if you must use it".

I wouldn't consider it too informal for most newsgroups I read (or have
read), though it probably would be too informal for a college-level
class (or not informal enough, for a small-group seminar type of class
where you know the other 5 people by the end of the second session).

Also, I would add punctuation /within/ as well as /after/ ... as a
speaker of American English, I would expect a comma after "Hi". I
would probably put either a period (full stop, ".") or an exclamation
mark(!) after "everybody", rather than just a comma or colon ("," and
":").

/dps

--
But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason
to 'be happy.'"
Viktor Frankl

Athel Cornish-Bowden

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May 17, 2015, 4:22:17 AM5/17/15
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OK. I agree with most of what you say. In view of the more serious
problems with Gökhan Karataş's English that occurred later on it was
probably silly of me to start with one that is arguable.


--
athel

Gökhan Karataş

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May 17, 2015, 6:37:45 AM5/17/15
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16 Mayıs 2015 Cumartesi 11:11:32 UTC+3 tarihinde Gökhan Karataş yazdı:
wtf!!!! i'm not an English man, i'm just learning English.I started new.
You are too rude. I wanted to help, but anybody didn't help me. Fuckk..

Peter Moylan

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May 17, 2015, 7:10:19 AM5/17/15
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A couple of people corrected your English, which is surely part of what
you are asking. Several people asked you to explain what is meant by a
Clause Type 1,2,3. Without that information, they cannot understand your
question. Perhaps you'll get help if you explain what your question means.

As for homework: if you just present a list of exercises and ask for the
solutions, nobody is going to help you cheat. What you need to do is
focus on the ones you are having trouble with.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Guy Barry

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May 17, 2015, 7:16:58 AM5/17/15
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"Peter Moylan" wrote in message news:mj9ssk$uko$1...@dont-email.me...
I did offer a possible answer to one of them, but I wasn't entirely sure
what was wanted, even after "if-clause type 1,2,3" was explained. It was a
rather oddly phrased question.

--
Guy Barry

Peter T. Daniels

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May 17, 2015, 10:36:49 AM5/17/15
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On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 7:10:19 AM UTC-4, Peter Moylan wrote:

> As for homework: if you just present a list of exercises and ask for the
> solutions, nobody is going to help you cheat. What you need to do is
> focus on the ones you are having trouble with.

Apparently not: every so often we get those spams offering answers to text
questions in all sorts of fields, so it seems that's expected in some circles.

Dr. HotSalt

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May 17, 2015, 10:10:51 PM5/17/15
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On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 3:37:45 AM UTC-7, Gökhan Karataş wrote:
> 16 Mayıs 2015 Cumartesi 11:11:32 UTC+3 tarihinde Gökhan Karataş yazdı:
> > Hi everybody im learning English and i have a english homework. I need
> rewrite this sentences in If Clause Type 1,2,3. Can you rewrite for me. I
> need your helps. Thank you for everything..

Yes, I can rewrite them, but I don't work for free. Nor do I make a habit of breaking laws, or helping cheaters or plain old lazy bums.

(snip)

> wtf!!!! i'm not an English man, i'm just learning English.I started new.

This is obvious. Besides, you already explained this.

> You are too rude. I wanted to help, but anybody didn't help me. Fuckk..

Rude? Soliciting help from strangers with homework without offering compensation, and then complaining that you got no free help from people who owe you nothing doesn't strike you as the least bit rude?

If you had tried to do the assignment and showed your work, no matter how wrong your efforts may have been I will guarantee that you would have gotten the help you need. Maybe not the help you wanted, that is to say the answers for free, but certainly explanations of how your wrong attempts went wrong, and tips on how to do it properly.

There is still time. What effort have you made? How close to correct do you think you've gotten so far?


Dr. HotSalt

bhar...@gmail.com

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Jul 26, 2019, 7:30:41 AM7/26/19
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Rewrite these sentences as a single sentence by using if - clause

Peter Moylan

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Jul 26, 2019, 8:22:33 AM7/26/19
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On 26/07/19 21:30, bhar...@gmail.com wrote:

> Rewrite these sentences as a single sentence by using if - clause

If you want an answer, you have to tell us what the sentences are.

CDB

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Jul 26, 2019, 9:07:18 AM7/26/19
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On 7/26/2019 7:30 AM, bhar...@gmail.com wrote:

> Rewrite these sentences as a single sentence by using if - clause

The, bhart, the.


Athel Cornish-Bowden

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Jul 26, 2019, 9:21:13 AM7/26/19
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On 2019-07-26 12:22:30 +0000, Peter Moylan said:

> On 26/07/19 21:30, bhar...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Rewrite these sentences as a single sentence by using if - clause
>
> If you want an answer, you have to tell us what the sentences are.

I don't promise to provide an answer even then.


--
athel

Peter T. Daniels

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Jul 26, 2019, 1:00:49 PM7/26/19
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On Friday, July 26, 2019 at 8:22:33 AM UTC-4, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 26/07/19 21:30, bhar...@gmail.com wrote:

> > Rewrite these sentences as a single sentence by using if - clause
>
> If you want an answer, you have to tell us what the sentences are.

If you had a decent newsreader, you could look at the May 16, 2015,
original message and see them.

And, for that matter, what you wrote about them on May 17, 2015.
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