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Mandarin · Chapter 32 · Lesson 8 · Grammar primer

Conditionals: 如果, 要是, 的话

The if-then frame across the register scale, the 就 that finishes the second clause and cannot be dropped, the bare conditional with no connective at all, and 要不是...早就 for the thing that did not happen.

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