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Communication Skills-I

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Examples:
1. If you slept well at night, you would be relaxed in the morning.
2. You would be relaxed in the morning if you slept well at night.

3. Only if the entire team worked fast, we could ﬁnish the work that day.

4. We would not ﬁnish the work that day if the entire team did not work fast.

5. We would not ﬁnish the work that day unless the entire team worked fast.

6. If the entire team were to work fast, we could ﬁnish the work that day.
Sometimes the statements use the open hypothetical form, though it is clearly quite
impossible. In such cases, the main clause uses the would/could + verb form.

Examples: 1. If I were you, I would never go there.

2. My teacher told me that I would deﬁnitely improve my scores if I worked harder.
(c) The unfulﬁlled hypothetical statement: The unfulﬁlled hypothetical statement refers to a

situation in which an event might have taken place, but did not, because a condition
was not fulﬁ lled.
The verb of the main clause is in the past conditional (would have + past participle)
and the verb of the conditional clause is in the past perfect (had + past participle).

Examples:

1. If you had slept too much, your eyelids would have swollen.
2. If the entire team worked fast, we would have ﬁ nished the work that day.

The conditional clause can be placed either before the main clause, or after it.

10.2.4 Interrogative

An interrogatory sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark (?). It may ask for

information or for conﬁrmation or denial of a statement. They typically begin with a question
word such as what, who, or how, or an auxiliary verb such as do/does, can or would.

Examples:

1. What is in the name?
2. Will you go to the market for me?
There are four types of interrogative sentences.
1. Yes/No Interrogatives: As obvious by name, Yes/No questions are answered by yes or
no.

Examples:

1. Did you score highest? (Answer: Yes/No)
2. Will you go to the market for me? (Answer: Yes/No)

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