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Warnings with 'unless'

Say what happens if you do not act

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Warnings with 'unless' about study/career consequences

The method

  1. 'unless' = 'if...not' — rewrite the unless-clause as a negative if-clause to check meaning

The common mistakes

  • 'unless' followed by a negative (double negative error)

From the lesson

Read this warning a teacher might give before the final exams.

The vocabulary

  • unless (ما لم)

What is not on the syllabus

  • 2nd conditional / wish-desire (previous concepts)

Builds on