The phrase "a conditional clause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing grammar, particularly when referring to clauses that express conditions, often introduced by "if" or "unless."
Example: "In the sentence 'If it rains, we will stay indoors,' 'If it rains' is a conditional clause."
Alternatives: "a conditional statement" or "a dependent clause".
A conditional clause begins with WHERE followed by the condition.
SQL queries that are designed to read, delete, or update table data often include a conditional clause to target specific rows in a table.
"Kick" is signed only with the leg, for instance, while a raised eyebrow is a vital bit of grammar, signalling a yes or no question, or a conditional clause beginning with "if".
Still, straightforward statements about the past, present or future, to which a conditional clause is attached — the traditional class of indicative conditionals — do (in my view) constitute a single semantic kind.
Attach a conditional clause to it, and you have a sentence which makes a conditional statement: "We'll be home by ten if the train is on time", "If Mary didn't cook the dinner, Tom cooked it".
The high proportion of missing responses found in the Saphora-Psy questionnaire could be at least partly explained by the presence of numerous questions starting with a conditional clause, such as "If you have had... ........, that does not offer answer options for patients who do not meet this initial criterion.
More precisely, the interpretation of an embedded conditional clause appears to be sensitive to the nature of the quantifier in the embedding sentence — a violation of compositionality.[19] There are compositional proposals that handle this example, but the obvious ones are ad hoc.
Well done! 'will' can be used in the conditional clause when a person is being insistent, or showing irritation at someone.
By contrast, the partner invoking a conditional MFN clause must make concessions equivalent to those extended by the third country.
If we wish to show irritation or insistence in a first conditional, we can use 'will' in the conditional clause.
This structure seems to suggest that the opening conditional clause applies to "supporters said," which is not what we meant.
