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Conditional sentences: grammar exercise

October 2, 2013 - pdf

Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form.

1. If you had taken the necessary precautions, none of this ……………………..

Correct! Wrong!

2. If I were you, I …………………… .. that mole examined.

Correct! Wrong!

3. If I …………………… . a lottery, I would spend all my time traveling.

Correct! Wrong!

4. Had I realized what you intended, I ……………………. my permission.

Correct! Wrong!

5. If it ………………………….. for your help, I don’t know what I would have done.

Correct! Wrong!

6. Were she my daughter, I ………………… her to go out in that mini-frock.

Correct! Wrong!

Answers

1. If you had taken the necessary precautions, none of this would have happened. (In a type 3 conditional sentence, we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the result clause.)

2. If I were you, I would get that mole examined. (In a type 2 conditional sentence, we use a past simple tense in the if-clause and would + infinitive in the result clause.)

3. If I won a lottery, I would spend all my time traveling. (When we use would + infinitive in the main clause, the verb in the if-clause should be in the past simple tense.)

4. Had I realized what you intended, I would not have given my permission. (‘Had I realized’ means the same as ‘If I had realized’. If I had realized what you intended, I wouldn’t have given my permission.)

5. If it hadn’t been for your help, I don’t know what I would have done. (We use a past perfect tense in the if-clause when would have + past participle is used in the main clause.)

6. Were she my daughter, I would not allow her to go out in that mini-frock. (In a type 2 conditional sentence we use a past simple tense in the if-clause and would + infinitive in the main clause. The clause ‘were she my daughter’ is actually a shortened form of the clause ‘if she were my daughter’.)

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