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Originally Posted by MrPedantic Hello M56
The sentence seems fine to me. I don't see it as a true conditional, though; the 'if' seems almost to mean 'since'. The main clause expresses an inference, rather than a consequence. To my mind, the pattern of a true conditional sentence is:
1. If X happens, Y happens.
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Conditionals can also be if X is true then so is Y. Yet, conditional" is not always a good name for some "if" structures.