Fill in the blanks.
1. It is ……………………. dark to see anything.
2. It is time they ………………………. this war.
We use a past simple after it is time.
3. She lay there ……………………… she was dead.
4. You have to finish the work …………………….. you go home.
5. The students rose from their seat ………………………. the teacher entered the class.
6. He talks ……………………. he knows everything.
As if is used to say what a situation seems like.
7. She is clever enough to see ……………………. your lies.
When you see through something, you are not deceived by it.
8. Are you not ashamed ……………………. yourself?
9. The older he got, …………………….. he became.
10. Booker was …………………….. timid to approach the white people.
11. If you ……………………. at once, I will call the police.
In the first conditional, we use a simple present in the if-clause and will + first form of the verb in the main clause.
12. If I had known her address, I ………………………… to her.
In the third conditional, we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.
Answers
1. It is too dark to see anything.
2. It is time they stopped this war.
3. She lay there as if she was dead.
4. You have to finish the work before you go home.
5. The students rose from their seat as soon as the teacher entered the class.
6. He talks as if he knows everything.
7. She is clever enough to see through your lies.
8. Are you not ashamed of yourself?
9. The older he got, the wiser he became.
10. Booker was too timid to approach the white people.
11. If you do not leave at once, I will call the police.
12. If I had known her address, I would have written to her.
