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if I publish vs if I published

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'If I publish' is used when talking about a future possibility or condition, while 'if I published' is used when talking about a hypothetical situation in the past.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 751 views

if I publish

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to a future possibility or condition.

Use 'if I publish' when you want to talk about a potential action you might take in the future.

Examples:

If I publish this book, I hope it will be successful.
If I publish my research findings, I will share them with the scientific community.

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But if I publish poor pictures it'll damage my reputation
But if I publish it with my name it wouldn't be ethical, but it would be the easiest for me, and take a load of my mind.
If I publish this demonstration just as it is,
If I could publish Glen Sellards address on the front page of the "post," I would do it.
"In the end, if you publish the source material,"I will likely be immediately implicated.
If you publish this, I'll lose my job.
I'd publish anything if it would lure you back.
And, mind you, I may have a bad time of it again if they ever publish my book, here or in America.
So what are you saying, you won't publish it if I don't change the ending?
That I can't help with, but if you were to publish under the pseudonym of a white man...
I asked Julian if he would publish information sent to his website that could lead to the deaths of innocents, such as how to release anthrax into a town's water supply.
I am willing to disclose all my financial interests and other commitments to the President of the Court of Auditors and if necessary to publish them.
I suppose, if you were to publish my theories on gamma rays as a potential solution to CCD, then I might be able to hear you out.
Maybe I could take the story down to the city paper, see if they'll publish it... or maybe just put it on a website.
If not publish them, continue to write for me.
If we publish it now, the competition procedure will be quite short.
You can submit it to someone and see if they publish it.
I'll write others and if they don't publish them,
If we publish, this will mean that they will close down all our future embedded access as well as doors in Washington.
Mattiece will sue them if they try to publish that.

Alternatives:

if I decide to publish
if I choose to publish
if I release
if I make public
if I put out

if I published

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to a hypothetical situation in the past.

Use 'if I published' when you want to talk about a hypothetical action or event that could have happened in the past.

Examples:

If I published that article, it would have reached a wider audience.
If I published my findings earlier, things might have turned out differently.

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You know what would happen to me if I published your story on my own.
Would you mind if I get it published in a medical journal?
Going to see if I can get it published.
If you want published I have to receive now.
I said, if anything were published or if we ever see her face again, I'd use it and she'd be prosecuted.
Not that I didn't check to see if she's published.
I think it would be a good idea if the Commission published a register specifying the amount of state aid per Member State.
I mean, I wrote two books... that wouldn't have gotten published if that one never did.
And I already made some remarks in my introduction on the relativity of forecasts, even if they are published, for the decision-making process.
the circling visibility for the aeroplane category, if published; or
the circling visibility for the aeroplane category, if published;
I can appreciate that a journalist may find it difficult to explain draft legislation containing thousands of amendments, especially if the text is published just a few days before voting takes place and is not, for that matter, published in all languages.
If she published my poems, it would be a dream.
I am thinking, in particular, of small and medium-sized enterprises which do not currently have the resources that large enterprises have for identifying and winning contracts abroad if they are not published.
During the four or five weeks when the reporters were working on the Afghan War Logs, all of us became concerned that there was material in there which, if published, could get people hurt on the ground in Afghanistan.
Provide a summary of any Member State policy or guidance on the following issues and, if published on the internet, a link to where this can be found:
If published on the internet, provide a link (Article 23(2))?
If published on the internet, provide a link.
Call Van Pelt and see if Montero published a blog.
If a published price does not exist for the instruments at the date of exchange, the significant assumptions used to determine fair value shall be disclosed.

Alternatives:

if I had published
if I had put out
if I had released
if I had made public
if I had shared

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