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When the mood of apodosis is expressive or imperative, use of ba is allowed only on certain conditions. First of all, when the mood of apodosis is expressive or imperative, ba protasis, not like tara protasis, cannot be a fixed condition. Non-actual conditions can be divided into two sub-categories: “fixed condition” and “hypothetical condition”. They both express potential event, yet with fixed condition the speaker is confident that the event will happen in the future, while with hypothetical condition the speaker is not sure whether the event will happen in the future or not. Fixed condition cannot contain “moshi”, while hypothetical condition can contain “moshi”. When apodosis mood is expressive or imperative making the sentence more actual compared to the general condition sentence, ba protosis gets strong connotation of “moshi” making itself impossible to be used as fixed condition.