I need to convey a message that " if I put a weight on something(assume a newly bought pillow). It is more likely to get torn". My question is of the below sentences which sentence is more accurate for the above scenario and why.
- If you put a weight on it , it is torn(damaged) easily.
- If you put a weight on it, it gets torn easily
- If you put a weight on it, it will get torn easily.
- If you put a weight on it. It is more likely to be torn
- If you put a weight on it, it is more likely to get torn
6.If you put a weight on it, it will torn easily
Best Answer
A sentence beginning with "if" is a conditional sentence. The verbs that you use depends on the situation that it describes.
For a universal truth- something that will always happen, you use present simple:
If you are describing a specific situation, and something will definitely happen, you generally use will:
If you are describing a probable consequence of a situation, you generally use present simple and probably or is likely to.
If you are describing something that might happen anyway, but is more likely to happen in the specified situation, you say is more likely to.
You can express the same idea by saying
Moving on to the question of get torn and be torn, get torn relates to an event- the instant in which tearing takes place. be torn can relate either to an event, or to a to a state- the condition that it's in once the tearing has happened.
Consider a glass. An event occurred in which the glass broke. From that time onwards, the state of the glass is .broken.
In this case, we want to emphasise that the weight is the cause of a tearing event, so it makes more sense to use the get version.