At 2:13 PM -0400 6/29/06, Beck, Charles wrote: >However, in the case of a conditional construct, I stand by my statement >and conviction that most readers could not care less whether we say, "If >such-and-such is true, then do this," or "If such-and-such is true, do >this."
I agree. In the second instance the "then" is implicit. - web