"Unless And Until" as a Doubled Conditional-Temporal Conjunction
5 exercises — practise the doubled conjunction "unless and until".
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Which sentence correctly uses "unless and until" to state that a feature flag will stay off before a condition is verified?
"...remains off unless and until the migration is verified..." correctly uses the fixed order "unless and until" directly before the subject of the dependent clause. Option B scrambles the internal word order. Option C reverses the two conjunctions, which is non-standard. Option D wrongly inserts "that".
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Which sentence correctly uses "unless and until" in a policy statement about account access?
"...will not be granted unless and until the request is approved..." correctly keeps the standard fixed order "unless and until". Option B reverses the two conjunctions. Option C scrambles the internal word order. Option D wrongly inserts "for".
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "unless and until" (a hard, indefinite barrier with no assumed timeline) from a plain "until" (a barrier with an assumed eventual timeline)?
"...stays live until the new one ships... it will not be removed unless and until every client has migrated" correctly reserves plain "until" for the timeline-based clause and "unless and until" for the indefinite, condition-based barrier. The other options misassign or scramble the two conjunctions.
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Which sentence correctly uses "unless and until" in a runbook to describe when an alert should stay suppressed?
"...stays suppressed unless and until the on-call engineer explicitly re-enables it" correctly keeps the fixed three-word sequence intact directly before the clause. The other options scramble the internal word order.
5 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "unless and until" to describe a compliance hold on a data export?
"...remains blocked unless and until legal signs off..." correctly places the fixed doubled conjunction directly before the subject "legal", with no extra words inserted. The other options scramble the word order or wrongly insert "that".