If care is not taken/ If care was not taken. Which one is correct sentence? Share with your friends Share 0 Vivek Kumar answered this Both of the phrases are correct , according to their uses in the sentence 0 View Full Answer L.vibha answered this Both of them are correct.E.g: If care is not taken, you will get cavities. If care was not taken you would have got the flu. The first one indicates that if care will not be taken then something might happen. The second one indicates that care was taken and that if it wouldn't have then the consequences would have been much dire. Hope this helped! 1 Susmita Das answered this Both are correct it just the matter of tense and all other things. 0