5 exercises — practise framing technical premises with "assuming (that)".
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Which sentence correctly uses "assuming" to introduce a working premise for a capacity estimate?
"Assuming the cache hit rate stays above 90%, latency will remain under 50ms" is correct: like "if", "assuming" is followed by present simple to state the premise, even though the main clause refers to the future. Option B unnecessarily shifts the premise into a future form with "will stay", which conditional-style clauses after "assuming" avoid. Option C uses the wrong participle form; "assumed" as a bare past participle does not function as this connector. Option D shifts the premise into past tense, which does not fit a present, ongoing assumption about system behavior.
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Which sentence correctly uses "assuming that" to state a premise behind a migration plan?
"Assuming that the schema migration completes without errors, we deploy the new API on Friday" is correct: present simple after "assuming that" states the premise as a plan-level condition, paired with present simple (or will) in the main clause for a scheduled future action. Option B adds "will complete", which is redundant and non-standard after this connector. Option C shifts the premise to past tense, implying the migration has already been evaluated rather than being an open assumption. Option D uses the present continuous, which frames the migration as in progress right now rather than as a general premise.
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "assuming" from "if" when the writer wants to signal that the condition is treated as highly likely, not merely possible?
"Assuming the load test passes, the service should be production-ready" correctly uses "assuming" to frame the load test passing as an expected premise the rest of the reasoning is built on, which is the natural role of this connector. Option A uses "if" plus a separate "assume" clause, which is grammatically fine but describes a different logical structure (drawing a conclusion), not the same premise-setting function. Option C incorrectly stacks "if" and "assuming" together, which is redundant and non-standard. Option D incorrectly uses the bare verb "assume" where the participle "assuming" is required to function as a connector.
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Which sentence correctly uses "assuming" in a technical risk-assessment context?
"Assuming no further outages occur this quarter, the SLA target is achievable" is correct: present simple follows "assuming" to state the premise cleanly. Option B adds an unnecessary "will occur", which does not fit this connector's standard pattern. Option C shifts to past tense, wrongly implying the quarter has already ended. Option D uses the bare gerund "occurring" without a finite verb, which breaks the clause structure since "assuming" here needs a full subordinate clause with a finite verb, not a second participle.
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Which sentence correctly uses "assuming" to open a technical explanation, keeping the premise and consequence logically linked?
"Assuming you have Docker installed, run the setup script directly" is correct: present simple after "assuming" states the premise required before following the instruction, matching standard documentation style. Option B's "will have" incorrectly frames a state (already having Docker installed) as a future event. Option C shifts to past tense, which wrongly implies the premise is a completed, closed condition rather than a present state readers should check. Option D replaces the finite clause with a gerund phrase, which does not fit "assuming" acting as a subordinating connector here.