Type
1: (Unless + present) |
- You'll
be sick unless you stop
eating. (= You will be sick if you don't stop eating)
- I won't pay unless you provide
the goods immediately. (= If you don't provide them I won't pay)
- You'll
never understand English unless you study
this grammar carefully. (= You'll never understand if you don't
study...)
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Type
2: (Unless +
past) |
- Unless
he was
very ill, he would be at work.
- I wouldn't eat that food unless I was
really hungry.
- She would be here by now unless she was
stuck in the traffic.
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Type
3: (Unless +
past perfect) |
- Our marketing director would not have signed the contract unless she'd
had the company legal expert present.
- I
wouldn't have phoned him unless you'd
suggested it.
- They
would have shot her unless she'd
given them the money.
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