Fill in the blanks with an appropriate verb form. This grammar exercise tests your understanding of conditional verb forms.
In Type 1 conditional, we use a simple present tense in the if clause and will + infinitive in the main clause.
In Type 2 conditional, we use a simple past tense in the if clause and would + infinitive in the main clause.
In Type 3 conditional, we use a past perfect tense in the if clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.
Answers
1. If you learnt mathematics at school, you wouldn’t find statistics so difficult.
2. If you learn a second language, you will have better career prospects.
3. I will help if she asks politely.
4. The meeting will be postponed if the chairman doesn’t get well soon.
5. Unless you leave my house, I will have you arrested.
6. He would succeed if he tried hard enough.
7. She would have been let off if she had apologized.
8. The accident wouldn’t have happened, if the driver had been careful.
9. I would wait if I had time.
10. I will visit Japan next month if I get the visa.
11. You would feel better if you ate a little food.
12. If I had known that she was in hospital I would have gone to see her.
