Sentence examples for conditional question from inspiring English sources

However, this line of reasoning is purely theory-internal; it seems impossible to decide on theory-external grounds what the true exhaustive answers to a conditional question should be taken to be.

These particular cases correspond to "conditional question" (e.g. "What is the management of X, given Y?"), which physicians often find it hard to answer [ 41].

"But if you ask anything beyond that – conditional questions – you end up on Google for an hour".

It is argued that such an extension is needed, in particular, for a suitable treatment of conditional questions.

Among conditional questions we can distinguish those in which the addressee is presumed to know whether the antecedent is true, and those in which he is not.

Conditional questions like (9) also present another challenge for a partition semantics, concerning answers that deny the antecedent of the conditional (in this case the answer that Ann is not coming).

Groenendijk and Mascarenhas argued that this adjustment, besides addressing the conceptual issue concerning indifference relations discussed above, also allows for a better analysis of conditional questions and alternative questions.

For example, they may appear relatively normal in social interactions, and their processing of conditional questions and ability to repeat sentences with complex syntax is closer to that of normal controls than to matched Downs syndrome controls (Bellugi et al. 2000: 15, 15).

Only respondents answering "yes" to both conditional questions, would be further evaluated for EIA.

Similarly, a question skip pattern was applied to conditional questions as appropriate (e.g. non-smokers were not asked smoking history questions) and various logic and consistency checks were built into the software to reduce error rates.

This skip logic in the software eliminated the need for the respondent to understand which questions needed to be answered and which needed to be skipped, thereby eliminating potential confusion that can occur with conditional questions in surveys.