Sentence examples for conditional questions from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.

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).

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).

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].

Since that sort of world is not close to the actual world, it is not relevant for fixing the truth of the subjunctive conditional in question.

If so, then again the specific worry about (28) would dissolve, as the relativized version of (P.5) would only warrant the following variant of the conditional in question: (See Thomson 1983, Simons 1987: §5.2, Masolo 2009, Giaretta and Spolaore 2011; see also Kazmi 1990 and Hovda 2013 for tensed versions of this strategy).

Those administering the questionnaire were separate individuals to those performing the counseling and were trained to ask each question, not conditional on global screening questions.