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Using Unless
There are many conjunctions used to specify conditions in the English language. The vast majority of these conjunctions can be used both at the beginning and in the middle of the sentence. The word UNLESS is also one of the popular conjunctions. When you use this word, you place a restriction on the information you specify before this word.
The information that comes after this word is presented as a condition where the information before it can be realized. This use has the opposite meaning of the use of the word IF. In general, the use of the word UNLESS is therefore common. Because instead of a sentence that you will extend using IF, the word UNLESS enables the sentence to carry the subject you want to explain in a short and aesthetic way.
Today we will examine some examples of sentences that you can establish with the word UNLESS and we will try to analyze the meaning of the word UNLESS in a sentence. Let’s start if you want.
- I am not going with you unless you ask my mom to take permission (Here, we can clearly see that the subject cannot go with his or her friend because his or her mom does not allow. The subject declares that if the ‘’friends’’ ask permission from his or her mom, he or she may come then. As you see, there is a different meaning structure with UNLESS)
- Do not tell me a lie, unless it is about myself. (This lyric sentence says that one can lie to him or her only when this lie is about himself or herself.)
The word UNLESS can sometimes be used with the past tense. In such a case, it tells why a situation that has not been realized, or why a situation has occurred or has not occurred. If you want to use UNLESS in this way, you can use this word at the beginning of the sentence or in the middle of the sentence.
- Unless I had had no homework, I would come with you.
- Unless my manager told me that I have to work until midnight, you would invite me, right?
- She would be here unless her mom allowed to be.
Let’s analyze these sentences. These sentences provide information about a situation that occurred in the past. Then, information about why this situation was not the other way around was presented to us together with the word UNLESS. It is given to us in these sentences that if the past conditions change, it will change in the unexpected situation experienced in the past.
The word UNLESS can sometimes be used with past perfect. When used in this way, this word explains a piece of information that has continued for a certain period of time and continues to spread to the present time. Here an example:
- I wouldn’t have invited him unless you had said that you love him, I am really sorry.
Here are Unles Example Sentences;
- Unless you want to turn yourself in privately.
- She will be sick unless she stops eating.
- Unless you are to tired let’s go for a walk at the park.
- Unless my son finish his homework, He can’t go out.
- You can’t get a job unless you have experience.
- Unless you leave home at once, you will be late for work.
