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Conditional clause A clause that expresses a condition or hypothesis about a

situation. It is typically introduced by the subordinating conjunction if, and

other conjunctions such as unless, as soon as:

If they promote her, she’ll get a big pay rise.

Unless you try, you’ll never do it.

Conjunction (another term for connector) Refers to items used to mark logical

relationships between words, phrases, clauses and sentences. There are two types

of conjunction: coordinating and subordinating. Coordinating conjunctions (or

coordinators) (and, but, or) join linguistic units with equal grammatical status:

Mary 

felt ill

and

could not go to school

.

Subordinating conjunctions (or subordinators) (although, after, as, because,

before, since, when

) indicate the semantic relationship between a subordinate

clause and a main clause: