{"id":73388,"date":"2020-03-24T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73388"},"modified":"2020-03-24T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:50:00","slug":"provided-that-vs-on-condition-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/provided-that-vs-on-condition-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Provided That vs. On Condition That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Provided that<\/strong> can be used as a conjunction. It is used to introduce a condition. It means something will happen only if another thing also happens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can borrow my car, provided that you drive it carefully.<\/li>\n<li>You can watch TV provided that you finish your homework first.<\/li>\n<li>I will go provided that she invites me.<\/li>\n<li>I will take you there, provided that you pay me.<\/li>\n<li>You may go out provided that you are back by ten o\u2019clock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In clauses introduced by <strong>provided that<\/strong>, we use a present tense to refer to the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will accept the job <strong>provided that<\/strong> they offer me a good salary. (NOT I will accept the job provided that they will offer me a good salary.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Usually, the same idea can be expressed using if or <strong>on condition that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can watch TV<strong> on condition that<\/strong> you finish your homework first.<\/li>\n<li>If you finish your homework first, you can watch TV.<\/li>\n<li>If she invites me I will go.<\/li>\n<li>If you pay me, I will take you there. OR I will take you there <strong>on condition that<\/strong> you pay me.<\/li>\n<li>If they offer me a good salary, I will accept the job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provided that can be used as a conjunction. It is used to introduce a condition. It means something will happen only if another thing also happens. You can borrow my car, provided that you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2204,2203,2205],"class_list":["post-73388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-on-condition-that","tag-provided-that","tag-provided-that-vs-on-condition-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73389,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73388\/revisions\/73389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}