Conditional Sentences

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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  1. Provided that we win the game, we’ll have a party.(TypeI- Conditional)
  2. Provided that we won the game, we would have a party.(TypeII- Conditional)
  3. Provided that we had won the game, we would have had a party.(TypeIII- Conditional)
    Are these sentences correct?
    Are all my observations written in brackets correct?
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The only one that sounds natural to me is #1.

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Correction: #2 would be OK for talking about habitual action in the past. That did not occur to me earlier.

… though actually, in that case, I think I would prefer “Provided that we had won the game, we would have a party”

Sorry, I seem to be making a bit of a mess of answering this question…!

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Hi, Dozy,

“Provided that” can be used as “If” in Conditional sentence, can’t it be ?
are they the same meaning ?

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They do not always have exactly the same meaning/usage. For example, you could say “If I won the lottery, I would go travelling in America”, but “Provided I won the lottery, I would go travelling in America” would be odd (normally).

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Thank you Dozy,

I have read this advice on the internet that we can always replace the “provided” with “If” . is it correct ?
but the vice versa is not always doable as you has explained above.

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I can’t think of any case where replacing “provided (that)” with “if” would result in incorrect English. However, “provided” tends to have more of a sense that something ought to happen, or should rightly happen, or is expected to happen – so such replacement may change the nuance or emphasis of the sentence.