UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE L A EDU CACION

HAMANAS Y TECNOLOGIAS
ESCUEL A DE IDIOMAS

STUDENTS NAME:
MIRIAN QUIGLA
DIANA CHAVEZ

LESS, AS LONG AS, PROVIDED/PROVIDING

UNLESS
Unlessmeans the same asif...not. Likeif,unlessis followed by a present
tense, a past tense, or a past perfect tense (never by a conditional).

Unlessis used instead ofif...notin conditional sentences of all types.

The order of the clauses doesn't matter with sentences usingunless.

EXAMPLE
Unless = except if, only if and if not.
The club is for members only.
You cant go in unless you are a member.
You cant go in except if you are a member.
You cant go in only if you are a member.

TYPE 1 CONDITIONAL:
UNLESS + PRESENT
TENSE
With If

Equivalent with Unless

You will be sick if you don't stop

eating.

You'll be sick unless you stop

eating.

I won't pay if you don't provide the

goods immediately.

I won't pay unless you provide the

goods immediately.

If you don't study dilligently, you'll

never understand trigonometry.

Unless you study dilligently, you'll

never understand trigonometry.

TYPE 2 CONDITIONAL: UNLESS +

PAST TENSE
With If

Equivalent with Unless

If he wasn't very ill, he would be at Unless he was very ill, he would be

work.
at work.
I wouldn't eat that food if I wasn't
really hungry.

I wouldn't eat that food unless I

was really hungry.

She would be here by now if she

wasn't stuck in traffic.

She would be here by now unless

she was stuck in traffic.

TYPE 3 CONDITIONAL: UNLESS +

PAST PERFECT
With If

Equivalent with Unless

Our director would not have signed Our director would not have signed
the contract if she hadn't had a
the contract unless she had had a
lawyer present.
lawyer present.
I wouldn't have phoned him if you
hadn't suggested it.

I wouldn't have phoned him unless

you'd suggested it.

They would have shot her if she

hadn't given them the money.

They would have shot her unless

she'd given them the money.

AS LONG AS
We useas long asto express a condition, to say that something will
happen only on condition that something else happens.

As long as= If or Condition that

I'll lend you the bookas long asyou promise to give me it back
next week.
(= If you don't promise to give the book back next week, I will not
lend you it.)

As long asexpresses that one thing depends on another.

You can go to the partyas long asyou come back before
midnight.
(= You can go to the party, but you must promise to be back before
midnight.)

PROVIDED (THAT) AND

PROVIDING (THAT)
Provided and providing these expressions mean IF or CONDITION THAT is
the same that AS LONG AS

Example:
Travelling by car is convenient
provided (that) you have
somewhere to park.
Travelling by car is convenient
provided (that) you have
somewhere to park.

No need for that

The word THAT can be omitted

Example:
Provided that the weather is fine,
well have a picnic on Saturday.
Provided the weather is fine, well
have a picnic on Saturday.

CONCLUTION

Unless, as long as and provided or

providing can be at the beginning or
at the middle but when we use at the
beginning we must use comma.

ACTIVITIES
If

1. ____ you are caught drinking, you will lose your license.
2.Unless
________ you stop smoking, youll be seriously ill.

If

3. ____ he gets caught, hell go to the jail.

4.Unless
________ she pays up, were going to be in a real trouble.

If

5. ____ we get the check today, we must bank it.

As ______________
long as
6. I will be here
he is here.

As long as
As long as
You can join us ____________ you contribute.

7. I will come ____________ you are there.

8.

long as you have a good credit score, you can borrow the
1. As
______________
money.
As long as
2. You are here, why you
As dont
longplay
as a round of poker with us?
3. You can take the day off ______________ you promise to come in
early on Monday.
Provided/providing
4. I will buy a car ______________________that I have enough money.
Provided/providing
5. ____________________that she studies hard, shell pass her exam.
Provided/providing
Provided/providing
6. ____________________that the bills are paid, tenants will not be
evicted.
7. ____________________that the room is clean, I dont mind which