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CATE LANGUAGE PRACTICE

Underline the most suitable verb forms in each sentence.

a)If the machine stops/will stop, you press/will press this button.

b)I can't understand what he sees in her! If anyone treats/will treat/treated me like that, I am/will be/would be extremely angry!

c)If you help/helped me with this exercise, I will/would do the same for you one day.

d)According to the timetable, if the train leaves/left on time, we will/would

g)It's quite simple really. If you take/will take/took these tablets every day, then you lose/will lose/lost/would lose weight.

h)I don't like this flat. I think I am/I will be/I'd be happier if I live/will live/would live/lived in a house in the country.

i)I don't know how to play baseball, but I'm sure that if I will do/did, I play/will

play/would play a lot better than anyone in this awful team!

j)If I phone/will phone/phoned you tonight, are you/will you be/would you be in?

2Underline the most suitable verb forms in each sentence.

a)Why didn't you tell me? If you told/had told me, I had helped/would have helped you.

b)If Bill didn't steal/hadn't stolen the car, he wasn't/wouldn't be/hadn't been in prison now.

c)If Ann wasn't driving/didn't drive/hadn't driven so fast, her car didn't crash/wouldn't crash/wouldn't have crashed into a tree.

d)Let me give you some advice. If you smoked/would smoke/had smoked less, you

didn't feel/wouldn't feel/wouldn't have felt so tired.

e)What bad luck! If Alan didn't fall/hadn't fallen/wouldn't fall over, he won/would win/would have won the race.

f)If you invited/had invited me last week, I was able/had been able/would have been able to come.

g)I'm sure your letter hasn't arrived yet. If it came/had come I'm sure I noticed/had noticed/would have noticed it.

h)We have a suggestion to make. How do you feel/would you feel if we offered/would offer/had offered you the job of assistant manager?

i)If you lent/had lent us the money, we paid/would pay/had paid you back next week.

j)Terry never catches anything when he goes fishing. And if he

catches/caught/had caught a fish, he throws/would throw it back!

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3 Put each verb in brackets into a suitable verb form.

4Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown. Do not change the meaning.

a)I didn't have an umbrella with me and so I got wet. I wouldn't have got wet if I'd had an umbrella with me

b)I'll call the police if you don't leave me alone! Unless

c)In the snowy weather we don't go to school.

If

d) Without Jack's help, I wouldn't have been able to move the table.

If

e)Make me some coffee, and I'll give you one of my biscuits. If

f)If you hadn't told me about Sue's hair, I wouldn't have noticed. Unless

g)If you see Peter, tell him to be here at 8.00. Should

h)I wouldn't accept if you asked me to marry you! If you were

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FIRST CERTIFICATE LANGUAGE PRACTICE

5 Choose the most appropriate description for each picture.

1)If she falls, she'll land in the safety net.

2)If she fell, she'd land in the safety net.

3)If she had fallen, she would have landed in the safety net.

1)It's worse if we order soup.

2)It would be worse if we ordered soup.

3)It would have been worse if we'd ordered soup.

1)If I own a dog like that, I'll keep it on a lead.

2)If I owned a dog like that, I'd keep it on a lead.

3)If I had owned a dog like that, I'd have kept it on a lead.

d)

1)I like it more if it looks like someone I know.

2)I'd like it more if it looked like someone I knew.

3)I'd have liked it more if it had looked like someone I knew.

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6 Rewrite each sentence. Use contracted forms.

a) If I had known, I would have told you.

..If I'd known, I'd have told you...

b)Tony would not have crashed if he had been more careful.

c)If I had my credit card with me, I would have bought the coat.

d)You would not have got lost if you had taken the map.

e)If Graham had not lost his watch, he would not have missed the plane.

f)If you had not told me her name, I would have found out from someone else.

g)If I were you, I would try getting up earlier.

time. It refers to future time.

2The past tense form in second conditional sentences does not refer to past time. It refers to future time.

3The difference between first and second conditional sentences can depend on the attitude of the speaker. The future situation might have a high possibility of happening (first conditional) or a low possibility (second conditional).

If she falls, she'll land in the safety net.

(This means that there is a real possibility that she will fall.)

If she fell she would land in the safety net.

(I am commenting on an imaginary situation, and I do not think she is likely to fall.)

4Might and could are common in conditional sentences when we are uncertain about our predictions.

5Mixed conditional forms are possible, especially where a past event has a present result.

If Brenda hadn't stolen the money, she wouldn't be in prison.

6 Unless, provided, and as long as can introduce conditions.

4.3,

Explanations

•Wishes about the past

For wishes about the past we use / wish + the past perfect. The time referred to is past time.

I wish I had gone to your party last week. (I did not go.)

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G R A M M A R 8 W I S H E S A N D RELATED FORMS

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