curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-discuss-your-morning-or-evening-routine/655a497a3afaf10b336746a5.md
Conditional sentences often use the word if to describe a situation that will cause a particular result. They typically consist of two parts: the condition (the if part) and the result. For example:
If you study hard, you will pass the exam. - Here, the condition is study hard, and the result is pass the exam. This means passing the exam depends on studying hard.
In the dialogue, the expert uses a conditional sentence to explain the consequences of skipping breakfast.
What does the expert imply with his conditional sentence?
Eating breakfast causes you to feel sluggish later.
The conditional sentence relates to skipping breakfast, not eating it.
Skipping breakfast leads to compensating later by overeating or feeling sluggish.
You can skip breakfast without any consequences.
The expert implies that skipping breakfast does have consequences.
Having breakfast makes you compensate by eating less later.
The focus is on the consequences of skipping breakfast, not having it.
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