UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZOFACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION

HAMANAS Y TECNOLOGIASESCUELA DE IDIOMAS

STUDENTS’ NAME:MIRIAN QUIGLA DIANA CHAVEZ

UNLESS, AS LONG AS, PROVIDED/PROVIDING

UNLESSUnless means the same as if...not. Like if, unless is followed by a present

tense, a past tense, or a past perfect tense (never by a conditional). 

 Unless is used instead of if...not in conditional sentences of all types.

The order of the clauses doesn't matter with sentences using unless.

EXAMPLE Unless = except if, only if and if not. The club is for members only. You can´t go in unless you are a member. You can´t go in except if you are a member. You can´t go in only if you are a member.

TYPE 1 CONDITIONAL: UNLESS + PRESENT TENSEWith If Equivalent with Unless

You will be sick if you don't stop eating. You'll be sick unless you stop eating.

I won't pay if you don't provide the goods immediately. I won't pay unless you provide the goods immediately.

If you don't study dilligently, you'll never understand trigonometry. Unless you study dilligently, you'll never understand trigonometry.

TYPE 2 CONDITIONAL: UNLESS + PAST TENSE

With If Equivalent with Unless

If he wasn't very ill, he would be at work. Unless he was very ill, he would be at work.

I wouldn't eat that food if I wasn't really hungry. I wouldn't eat that food unless I was really hungry.

She would be here by now if she wasn't stuck in traffic. She would be here by now unless she was stuck in traffic.

TYPE 3 CONDITIONAL: UNLESS + PAST PERFECT

With If Equivalent with Unless

Our director would not have signed the contract if she hadn't had a lawyer present.Our director would not have signed the contract unless she had had a lawyer present.

I wouldn't have phoned him if you hadn't suggested it. I wouldn't have phoned him unless you'd suggested it.

They would have shot her if she hadn't given them the money. They would have shot her unless she'd given them the money.

AS LONG AS

We use as long as to express a condition, to say that something will happen only on condition that something else happens.

As long as = If or Condition that I'll lend you the book as long as you promise to give me it back next week.(= If you don't promise to give the book back next week, I will not lend you it.)

As long as expresses that one thing depends on another. You can go to the party as long as you come back before midnight.(= You can go to the party, but you must promise to be back before midnight.)

PROVIDED (THAT) AND PROVIDING (THAT)

Provided and providing these expressions mean IF or CONDITION THAT is the same that AS LONG AS

Example:Travelling by car is convenient provided (that) you have somewhere to park.Travelling by car is convenient provided (that) you have somewhere to park.

No need for thatThe word THAT can be omitted

Example:Provided that the weather is fine, we´ll have a picnic on Saturday.Provided the weather is fine, we´ll have a picnic on Saturday.

CONCLUTION

Unless, as long as and provided or providing can be at the beginning or at the middle but when we use at the beginning we must use comma.

ACTIVITIES1. ____ you are caught drinking, you will lose your license.2. ________ you stop smoking, you’ll be seriously ill.3. ____ he gets caught, he’ll go to the jail.4. ________ she pays up, we’re going to be in a real trouble.5. ____ we get the check today, we must bank it.6. I will be here ______________ he is here.7. I will come ____________ you are there.8. You can join us ____________ you contribute.

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As long asAs long as

As long as

1. ______________ you have a good credit score, you can borrow the money.

2. You are here, why you don’t play a round of poker with us?3. You can take the day off ______________ you promise to come in

early on Monday.4. I will buy a car ______________________that I have enough money.5. ____________________that she studies hard, she´ll pass her exam.6. ____________________that the bills are paid, tenants will not be

evicted.7. ____________________that the room is clean, I don’t mind which

hotel we stay at.

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