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There are several questions here on EllELL that refersrefer to the idiom "if you have any questions", but none of them touches upon why is it "you have" and not "you would have", when that sentence refers to the future.

As an example:

Teacher: Please finish this task until next Sunday.
Student: No problem. If I (would) have any questions, I'll ask you by email.

Is the student in this example correctly usesusing would?
If not, why is it? assumingAssuming the student doesn't have questions now, and would only have questions once they start working on the task, shouldn't there be a would?

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There are several questions here on Ell that refers to the idiom "if you have any questions", but none of them touches upon why is it "you have" and not "you would have", when that sentence refers to the future.

As an example:

Teacher: Please finish this task until next Sunday.
Student: No problem. If I (would) have any questions, I'll ask you by email.

Is the student in this example correctly uses would?
If not, why is it? assuming the student doesn't have questions now, and would only have questions once they start working on the task, shouldn't there be a would?

Related:

There are several questions here on ELL that refer to the idiom "if you have any questions", but none of them touches upon why is it "you have" and not "you would have", when that sentence refers to the future.

As an example:

Teacher: Please finish this task until next Sunday.
Student: No problem. If I (would) have any questions, I'll ask you by email.

Is the student in this example correctly using would?
If not, why is it? Assuming the student doesn't have questions now, and would only have questions once they start working on the task, shouldn't there be a would?

Related:

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When "If you have any questions" refers to the future, why isn't it "if you would have any questions"?

There are several questions here on Ell that refers to the idiom "if you have any questions", but none of them touches upon why is it "you have" and not "you would have", when that sentence refers to the future.

As an example:

Teacher: Please finish this task until next Sunday.
Student: No problem. If I (would) have any questions, I'll ask you by email.

Is the student in this example correctly uses would?
If not, why is it? assuming the student doesn't have questions now, and would only have questions once they start working on the task, shouldn't there be a would?

Related: