Talk:Conditional sentence

message: Where do the terms "Zero conditional" through "Third conditional" come from? I've never heard them. Also, this page's title implies it's about the verb form called "conditional" in many language, e.g. French j'irais 'I would go'. But the content is much more about conditional sentences, which may or may not be formed with conditional verb forms (e.g. French si tu feras la vaisselle, je l'essuyerai 'if you wash the dishes, I will dry them'). I'll try to remedy this over the next few days and weeks. --Angr 08:11, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Zero to third conditionals

message: I just overhauled the page, which was previously an attempt to project the Latin classification (which deserves to be mentioned in is own right) onto English. The page is still far from satisfactory (needs more general discussion, and references). I took out the "zero condition" … "third condition" terminology for English, because I am not familiar with it, but someone can reinsert it. CapnPrep 08:08, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You may not have noticed the article Counterfactual conditional, which covers the same basic information as the section "Irrealis conditions" of this article. I've linked to it as the "Main article" on the topic. —Angr 09:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: What about conditionals like Had I known..., Were I rich..., Need I say..., or Should you have... that use a modal auxiliary and word order inversion like a question? All of the conditionals in this article currently use "if" and it would be useful to add this type of conditional to the article even though it's not as common. 130.101.165.7 (talk) 07:46, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I had the exact same thought. The examples here are a bit frustrating. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 03:58, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conditional without "If" 

message: someone removed Classical Greek Conditionals because it's a dead link. Apparently one or both of the links on conditionals on http://classics.uchicago.edu/faculty/dik/niftygreek may be the same or similar: http://classics.uchicago.edu/sites/mahimahi.uchicago.edu.drupal.classics/files/conditionals.pdf or http://classics.uchicago.edu/sites/mahimahi.uchicago.edu.drupal.classics/files/apaconditions.pdf --Espoo (talk) 19:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classical Greek  

message: This page is flawed in two aspects: it tries to describe general conditional tenses in English and other languages, but then it delves exclusively into the English conditional without being sufficiently rigorous in the former or the latter topic.
Therefore a clear decision must be made, this page should describe a general conditional sentence in Indo-European languages, or should dedicate solely to the English conditional. Ideally there should be a general Conditional tense article as well as separate articles for Conditional in English, Conditional in French, Conditional in Italian, and so on. ----155.69.2.10 (talk) 00:39, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: With 6,000 languages to deal with, space is a factor.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.51.152.78 (talk) 12:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only English conditional 

message: I'd like to switch over the terminology used in the article, from protasis to antecedent and from apodosis to consequent. The reason being that these terms are pretty much universally used in the contemporary linguistics and philosophy literature. But I wanted to post here, just in case anybody objects and wants to discuss. Botterweg14 (talk) 03:31, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antecedent/consequent versus protasis/apodosis 

message: This article provides a good foundation upon which someone might build a more comprehensive discussion. As it sits, the article would benefit from tightening up on the focus of the topics. By which I mean, some topics introduce tangential information that is not discussed elsewhere. 
While it is not the objective of this article, I believe there are missed opportunities to link or build articles related to the role conditionals play in jurisprudence, philosophy, and logic. As is noted upstream in the Talk Page, there is some contention as to how this article should address the treatment of conditionals in languages other than English. As it sits, the sections dealing with such languages are underpopulated and are indeed deserving of their own article pages. It is likely worth building their own article pages. 
Again, as previously mentioned, this article deals solely with if statement conditionals. Such conditionals are not the only ones that exist, e.g., unless you …, providing that …, supposing you …. This must be addressed. 
Lastly, and somewhat superficially, there are some punctuation errors. At times, the writing seems sophomoric. Ccoonjohn (talk) 22:03, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review for Wikedu Class Assignment 

message: The article as it stands doesn't mention the kind of conditionals that occur in indirect speech, or which in novels occur in descriptions of the thoughts of the characters, e.g. "if he took the train, he would be there in time", which means "He thought to himself, "If I take the train, I will be there in time"." These look like counterfactual conditionals, but use the past tense because they are indirect, not because they are counterfactual. Kanjuzi (talk) 08:48, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indirect speech conditionals