If this article / noun pair is used as the object of a verb, it ( usually ) changes to the accusative case, which entails an article shift in German – Ich sehe den Wagen.

If there is a direct object, the indirect object can be expressed by an object pronoun placed between the verb and the direct object.

If the verbal expression of modality involves the use of an auxiliary verb, that auxiliary is called a modal verb.

If the three arguments of a typical ditransitive verb are labeled D ( for Donor ; the subject of a verb like " to give " in English ), T ( for Theme ; normally the direct object of ditransitive verb in English ) and R ( for Recipient, normally the indirect object in English ), these can be aligned with the Agent and Patient of monotransitive verbs and the Subject of intransitive verbs in several ways, which are not predicted by whether the language is accusative, ergative, or active.

If a language has no cases, but the word order AVP or PVA, then a classification may reflect whether the subject of an intransitive verb appears on the same side as the agent or the patient of the transitive verb.

If one views a statement in an imperative language as being like a sentence in a natural language, then a command is generally like a verb in such a language.

If needed, the past may be indicated by preceding the verb with e, and the future with i.

If a particular sentence's structure places the entire verb in final position then the prefix and root verb appear together.

If a sentence places the verb in second position then only the root verb will appear in second position ; the separated prefix remains at the end of the sentence.

If any of the three pieces ( the cat, the mat, and the relation between them which correspond respectively to the subject, object, and verb of the statement ) is missing, the statement is false.

* If the verb has more than zero arguments, then one argument is the syntactic pivot.

If the verb " to plough " retained the simple meaning of " to turn up the earth with a plough ," then the idea of a car " ploughing through traffic " would clearly be a metaphor.

If the pronoun is enclitic and the verb ends with a consonant, or if the pronoun is mesoclitic and the root of the verb ends with a consonant, then that consonant is elided, and an l is added to the beginning of the pronoun.

If the pronoun is enclitic and the verb ends with a nasal diphthong ( spelled-ão ,-am ,-em ,-ém ,-êm ,-õe, or-õem ), an n is added to the beginning of the pronoun.

If we can identify the verb in a clause, and we know that the language is strict accusative SVO, then we know that Grob smock Blug probably means that Grob is the smocker and Blug the entity smocked.

If the rules of forming interrogatives require it, the verb in the tag may be an auxiliary, as in English.

If the verb is in the present perfect, for example, the tag question uses has or have ; if the verb is in a present progressive form, the tag is formed with am, are, is ; if the verb is in a tense which does not normally use an auxiliary, like the present simple, the auxiliary is taken from the emphatic do form ; and if the sentence has a modal auxiliary, this is echoed in the tag:

`` If William agrees, we should insist on a public debate '', he said at length.

* If ƒ ( z ) is locally integrable in an open domain Ω ⊂ C, and satisfies the Cauchy – Riemann equations weakly, then ƒ agrees almost everywhere with an analytic function in Ω.

If they decide not to have a Governor and the public agrees with that, and Parliament agrees, and the Queen agrees to it, that is a different matter, but while there is a Governor you have got to give him some respectability and credibility, because he is the host for the whole of New South Wales.

If one agrees that set theory is an appealing foundation of mathematics, then all mathematical objects must be defined as sets of some sort.

If N is a closed normal subgroup of a profinite group G, then the factor group G / N is profinite ; the topology arising from the profiniteness agrees with the quotient topology.

* Time and manner in which the defendant has asserted his right: If a defendant agrees to the delay when it works to his own benefit, he cannot later claim that he has been unduly delayed.

If the victim agrees to the deal, the other side often sends one or more false documents bearing official government stamps, and seals.

If the employees are unrepresented and the employer agrees, the NMB may certify the union based on the authorization cards alone.

If you say something that someone already agrees with, then what's the point, and so we make some more conservative animal protection organizations uncomfortable ; they don't want to be associated with us because it will be embarrassing for them, and I understand that.

If one agrees with Oliver, not only does the Induction prove that Katherina's speech is not to be taken seriously, it removes even the need to ask the question of its seriousness in the first place.

If Beppo can prove himself within a year, Trudo agrees to allow him to marry Annette.

If he agrees to this, Goodwin promises not to call Van Doren to appear before the Congressional committee.

If there is a full confession, and the defendant agrees to it, the trial may be held before a single professional judge who hears the case and determines sentencing.

If rented, the renter agrees to use the mailing list for only contractually agreed-upon times.

If a person agrees to accept a fee or other good consideration for holding possession of goods, they are generally held to a higher standard of care than a person who is doing so without being paid ( or receives no benefit ).

* If the law is passed, the President agrees to have the recount as soon as possible and expects Lien to acknowledge the results from the recount.

If the Council agrees to open negotiations the screening process then begins.

If Ofcom agrees with the proposal the changes could be in place by 2009.

If the individual agrees -- and many persons wait to receive spiritual confirmation before agreeing -- then the individual is " called " to the position.

* Re Hall and Barker ( 1878 ) 9 Ch D 538, 545 '... If a shoemaker agrees to make a pair of shoes, he cannot offer you one shoe, and ask you to pay one half of the price.

If the mark agrees, he must set his money down before pointing to a shell.

If a taxpayer agrees to a tax assessment but unable to pay, they could request a remission order to CRA.

If the judge agrees, Opposition wins.

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.

He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

If he showed signs of collecting his rifle and going back with his deputy to the ranch he would be shot down instantly.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If we look at recent art we find it preoccupied with form.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

If he condemns the recent or the present, he condemns the past with no less force.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

If Woodruff could not furnish a strong explanation, the governor insisted that he lower his prices in accord with the scale printed in The Advocate.

If he borrowed money from Shakespeare or with his help, he would now have been able to repay the loan.

If the manner of his passing moves the nations to act in the spirit of his dedication the sore issues that plague the world can yet be resolved with reason and justice.

If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

If you're lyin' out in the hammock at night, and it gets kinda cool -- you know -- you just take these sides with the fringe on -- see -- and wrap 'em right over you.

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we cluster together, the redcoats can make an advantage out of it, but there's not a blessed thing they can do with two or three of us except chase us, and we can outrun them ''.