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by rrobiinn » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:39 am
I stumbled upon on this sentence while reading newspaper.

"Similarly, a 1995 report prepared by the Water Development Board says the water flow in the rivers Meghna, Surma and Kushiara will decrease should India construct the dam."


I understand until ".... will decrease" but the last part "should India construct the dam" is making me confused.

Could any1 explain how the sentence was formed grammatically? Other examples are also requested to be shown.
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:03 am
This is grammatically correct in introducing the conditional. Basically this is a bit more proper, but it acts as a replacement for if..

Other examples:

You will have a fun time at the party should you decide to go.

I will have to change my tire should it become flat.


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by rrobiinn » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:47 pm
Jim@StratusPrep wrote:This is grammatically correct in introducing the conditional. Basically this is a bit more proper, but it acts as a replacement for if..

Other examples:

You will have a fun time at the party should you decide to go.

I will have to change my tire should it become flat.


Hope that helps.

"You will have a fun time at the party should you decide to go"

Does this part "should you decide to go." means a question like "should you decide to go?". otherwise, what does this part mean?
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by confuse mind » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:15 pm
Jim@StratusPrep wrote:This is grammatically correct in introducing the conditional. Basically this is a bit more proper, but it acts as a replacement for if..

Other examples:

You will have a fun time at the party should you decide to go.

I will have to change my tire should it become flat.


Hope that helps.

This could be correct but I read somewhere that 'should' should *never* be used for 'conditional' in GMAT. Am I missing something?
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by confuse mind » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:30 pm
Jim@StratusPrep wrote:This is grammatically correct in introducing the conditional. Basically this is a bit more proper, but it acts as a replacement for if..

Other examples:

You will have a fun time at the party should you decide to go.

I will have to change my tire should it become flat.


Hope that helps.
Secondly one more doubt - since we are telling a conditional which was evaluated in the past, shall we not use - would in place of will - in the original sentence.

A 1955 report said that the water level would decrease if India constructed the dam.
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by jimmyjimmy » Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:21 pm
rrobiinn wrote:I stumbled upon on this sentence while reading newspaper.

"Similarly, a 1995 report prepared by the Water Development Board says the water flow in the rivers Meghna, Surma and Kushiara will decrease should India construct the dam."


I understand until ".... will decrease" but the last part "should India construct the dam" is making me confused.

Could any1 explain how the sentence was formed grammatically? Other examples are also requested to be shown.
again smthing nw to learn, thanks..
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