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First of all thanks to everyone helping me out here, i'm already feeling some
progress on the learning process, of course there’s a lot of room to improve,
but sure it is nice to feel some progress every now and then ^^.

Now to my question, I was going to make a sentence to ask a friend of mine
about a grammar point “The difference between using なんです or just です at the end
of a sentence” so I came up with this sentence(which brought me another
grammar doubt about the conditional form):

“If someone ask me ‘Felipe, where are you going?’ so, I said ‘I am going to
work’ or ‘I am going to work’(don’t know how to express なんです in English).
What’s the difference between these sentences?”

`誰かが僕に「フェリペがどこに行っていますの?」と問えばなので、僕は「仕事です」というか、「仕事なんです」というか。これらの文の違いはなんかですか？`

My question is on the first part, If the first part was ending with 「問います」I
know for sure that I would use 「ので」instead of 「なので]

but if I had endend with 「問いたい」I’d need to end it with 「なので」because it
understood as an i-adjective.

What about the 「問えば」 ending, do I treat it as a verb or a noun/na-adjective?
Therefore should I use 「なので」or 「ので」?

I’m sorry for the really long question, I hope I was clear enough, if you
could help me in any mistakes on the sentence overall, I’d be grateful!

Thanks a Lot!
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Is the conditional form of a verb treated like a regular verb or a noun/na-adjective?
I'll try to limit my answer to your question about what to do with「～ば」and
「ので・なので」

  * **問{と}う** as I'm sure you know, means "to ask a question" (like on a test)

  * **問えば** means "( _if_ ) a question were asked" (The 仮定形 of 問う is 問え and then you add the 助詞「ば」to indicate something like, "if it were the case that...")

  * **ので・なので** generally mean "because" or "as a result" in English.

The problem is that 「ば」is a conjunction (接続助詞) and「ので・なので」is also a
conjunction. This means that **they can't be used next to one another
grammatically**.

Your original example sentence has a similar problem with the English grammar.
I remember you said a while ago that English isn't your native language so I'm
not trying to criticize you at all, you've obviously worked hard to use
English so well :)

> “ **If** someone _asked_ / _asks_ me "Felipe, where are you going?", **so**
> I said "I am going to work" or "I am going to work". What’s the difference
> between these sentences?”

You can make this clause using "if" **_or_** using "so", but you _can't use
both_ in the same clause this way.

So, the following are OK in English:

  * **If** someone _asks_ me "Felipe, where are you going?", and I say "I am going to work" (then) ... 
  * Someone _asked_ me "Felipe, where are you going?", **so** I said "I am going to work". 

Likewise, the following are OK in Japanese:

  * 生年月日を問われれ **ば** … " **If** I were asked my birth date, ..."
  * 生年月日を問われた **ので** … "I was asked my birth date, **so**..."

But you can't use these two words together like in the OP example sentence.
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