Hi.
To understand my problem please look at situation that i explain below.
There are three friends: A , B and C.
A and B are waiting C at bus station.
B know that C come if you call him.
B say A: “ If you called C yesterday he will come”
In general I want express idea like: If you did yesterday something, you will get something tomorrow. It's fact. It's truth. I am certain about it. But you had to do it before act of speaking.
And in future you will get result.
One more example: If you passed exam in last year, you will not do this exam in next year
So how grammatically true express this idea?
Thank.
Real condition in past and its result in future.
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Re: Real condition in past and its result in future.
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but if it's whether your sentences are correct as written, then (essentially) yes, they are.
A sentence of the type
If you (in fact) called him yesterday, he will (definitely) come.
is quite appropriate for expressing the notion that something may actually have happened yesterday (your calling him) and its future result is therefore likely to occur.
Note, however, that, despite certain superficial similarities to a 2nd conditional (e.g.
If you called him, he probably would come.
where the idea of your calling him is merely a remote future possibility)
your sentence is simply a modified 1st conditional, in which the past indicative (not subjunctive) supplants the more common present indicative.
I hope that answers your question!
N.B. If you passed exam in last year, you will not do this exam in next year. --> If you passed this exam last year, you will not do it next year.
A sentence of the type
If you (in fact) called him yesterday, he will (definitely) come.
is quite appropriate for expressing the notion that something may actually have happened yesterday (your calling him) and its future result is therefore likely to occur.
Note, however, that, despite certain superficial similarities to a 2nd conditional (e.g.
If you called him, he probably would come.
where the idea of your calling him is merely a remote future possibility)
your sentence is simply a modified 1st conditional, in which the past indicative (not subjunctive) supplants the more common present indicative.
I hope that answers your question!
N.B. If you passed exam in last year, you will not do this exam in next year. --> If you passed this exam last year, you will not do it next year.