Conditional Sentences in English: Non-conditional 'conditionals'

This article is part of an eight-part series on Conditional Sentences in English:

1. Introduction: What are 'conditional sentences'?
2. Factual Conditionals
3. Predictive Conditionals
4. Hypothetical Conditionals
5. Counterfactual Conditionals
6. Alternatives to IF
7. Other expressions with IF
8. Non-conditional ‘conditionals’

Non-conditional ‘conditionals’

Certain warnings/threats with and and not ….or convey a message very similar in meaning to conditional utterances, though they are not conditional constructions:

Come home so late again and I’ll ground you for a month.

Don’t come home so late again or I’ll ground you for a month.

The meaning of these is similar to the conditional contruction: If you come home so late again, I’ll ground you for a month.