Is it grammatically correct to include "would be" in a conditional clause?
Your physician may recommend you to be evaluated if you would potentially be a candidate for this vaccine.
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2Yes, it's grammatical. But the entire sentence is awkward and unidiomatic. Far more natural would be one of the following: (1) Your physician may recommend you as a candidate for this vaccine. (2) Your physician may recommend an evaluation to see if you are a candidate for this vaccine. Note that you can replace are with would be in the second sentence, but it's not as common.– Jason BassfordAug 13, 2020 at 8:49
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Thank you, can you give me your fb ?– Ihsan UllahAug 13, 2020 at 12:16
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1It's redundant, overblown.– Edwin AshworthJan 8, 2022 at 15:03
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Pretty typical of CYA medical prose. "Ask your doctor", they always say, when it takes a week to get a return call.– John LawlerMay 8, 2022 at 14:06
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The use of the infinitive 'to be' is incorrect in your sentence and it would be better to surround 'potentially' with parenthetic commas. To me "Your physician may recommend you be evaluated if you would, potentially, be a candidate for this vaccine" would be correct.– BoldBenFeb 3, 2023 at 11:12
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It depends on what you're trying to say.
If you're trying to say that the evaluation is will determine if you're a candidate, you should include that detail.
Your physician may recommend you to be evaluated to determine if you would potentially be a candidate for this vaccine.
But if your intent is that the physician already feels that you would be a candidate, and then recommends a further evaluation, you it would be better to invert the sentence to make the order of actions clearer.
If you would potentially be a candidate for this vaccine, your physician may recommend you to be evaluated.
It can ideally be "Your physician may recommend you to be evaluated if you are potentially a candidate for this vaccine./ ...if you are a potential candidate for this vaccination"etc. However, going against the conventional grammar,
"Your physician may recommend you to be evaluated if you would potentially be a candidate for this vaccine", should be acceptable, except in the examinations/ English tests for students.
