You won't pass your examinations unless you study hard.Unless you are a military fan, the Pentagon tour isn't very exciting.He must have resigned, unless they fired him.Unless the weather improves, we will have to cancel the game.Milk quickly turns sour, unless it's refrigerated.Being a mentor to a young person is a way of creating positive. Thus, whether read by or to a child, there are several levels of adult presence in this textadult writer/publisher and possible adult reading aloud, as well as an adult within the story dictating the lesson or moral to a child. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Don't call me at the office unless it's absolutely necessary. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.Unless he's a complete idiot, he'll understand.You use or else when saying that something bad will happen if you do not do something: You’d better go now, or else you’ll miss the train.You use in case when saying that you do something in order to be prepared if something happens: Take a sweater in case you get cold.You use unless when saying that if something does not happen, something else will happen: Unless I hear from you (=if I don’t hear from you ), I’ll assume everything’s OK.✗ Don’t say: Unless the company would get a loan. They threatened to kill him unless he gave them the money. To talk about the past, use the simple past with unless : Unless the company got a loan, it would go bankrupt.✗ Don’t say: unless someone will have asked me to | unless someone will ask me to You can also use the present perfect tense with unless : I won’t change anything unless someone has asked me to.✗ Don’t say: Unless the government will change its policy. Don’t use ‘will’ in the clause after unless.You use the simple present tense with unless : Unless the government changes its policy, the economic situation will get worse.► see thesaurus at if 2 → not unless GRAMMAR: Choosing the right tense
I can’t leave her unless I know she’s all right.
He won’t go to sleep unless you tell him a story. I think you should complain – unless, of course, you are happy with the way things are. S1 W1 conjunction 1 IF used to say that something will happen or be true if something else does not happen or is not true Unless some extra money is found, the theatre will close.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English unless un‧less / ʌnˈles, ən- /
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