CONDITIONALS 1122020 1 IF CLAUSES 1122020 2 AREAL

CONDITIONALS 11/2/2020 1

(IF CLAUSES) 11/2/2020 2

A-REAL CONDITION 11/2/2020 3

If you buy this car, it will cost you a lot of money. 11/2/2020 4

If they don’t invite me to their party, I shall never speak to them. 11/2/2020 5

If the ground is dry, don’t forget to water these flowers. 11/2/2020 6

If he is bothering you I will call the police. 11/2/2020 7

If I have made a mistake, I will try to correct it. 11/2/2020 8

If you must comb your hair, please do it outside. 11/2/2020 9

When do we use Real Condition: 11/2/2020 10

If we heat ice, it melts. 11/2/2020 11

If you hit me, it hurts. 11/2/2020 12

If I make a promise, I keep it. 11/2/2020 13

If you are happy, you make others happy. 11/2/2020 14

If it is rainy, he usually goes to school by bus. 11/2/2020 15

If you don’t like your job, why don’t you change it. 11/2/2020 16

UNREAL CONDITIONS 11/2/2020 17

1. PRESENT: 11/2/2020 18

1. I don’t have enough money now, so I can’t lend you any. 11/2/2020 19

1. If I had enough money I would lend you some. 11/2/2020 20

1. I will work tomorrow, so I can’t come with you tomorrow. 11/2/2020 21

1. If I didn’t work tomorrow I would come with you tomorrow. 11/2/2020 22

Tenses with main clause 11/2/2020 23

I think the baby is hungry, because she is creying. 11/2/2020 24

If the baby weren’t hungry she wouldn’t be crying. 11/2/2020 25

I am not rich, so I can’t travel around the world. 11/2/2020 26

If I were rich I would travel arand the world. 11/2/2020 27

Tenses / Modals If Clause 11/2/2020 28

They will be out of town next week, so we can’t visit them. If they weren’t out of town next week we would visit them. 11/2/2020 29

WERE TO Tenses / Modals If Clause 11/2/2020 30

They will be out of town next week, so we can’t visit them. 11/2/2020 31

If they weren’t out of town next week we would visit them. 11/2/2020 32

/ WAS TO 11/2/2020 33

What would you do if a war were to break out? 11/2/2020 34

If I were to ask, would you help me? 11/2/2020 35

Were you to cheat in the exam you should never pass. 11/2/2020 36

If it weren’t for your help, I would still be homeless. 11/2/2020 37

Were it not for your help, I would still be homeless 11/2/2020 38

If I should see him tomorrow, I would give him your messoge. 11/2/2020 39

SHOULD 11/2/2020 40

Probably you won’t see him tomorrow. But if you should see him can you give him a massage. 11/2/2020 41

I don’t think it will rain tomorrow. But if it should rain we will have to cancel the picnic. 11/2/2020 42

Compare: 11/2/2020 43

If you should decide to buy a car, tell me. 11/2/2020 44

If you decide to buy a car, tell me. 11/2/2020 45

Should you change your mind, there will be still a place for you. 11/2/2020 46

PAST 11/2/2020 47

She didn’t warn the child about the boiling kettle, so he burnt himself. 11/2/2020 48

If she had warned the child about the boiling kettle he wouldn’t have burnt himself. 11/2/2020 49

She was late for the work, because she didn’t hear the alarm clock ring. 11/2/2020 50

She wouldn’t have been late for work if she had heard the alarm clock ring. 11/2/2020 51

Tenses / Modals in Main Clause: 11/2/2020 52

She started work late, so she was still working at night. 11/2/2020 53

If she hadn’t started work late she wouldn’t have been working at night. 11/2/2020 54

I run to the bus stop, so I was able to catch the bus. 11/2/2020 55

If I hadn’t run to the bus stop I wouldn’t have been able to catch the bus. 11/2/2020 56

Tenses / Modals in If Clause. He wasn’t wearing his belt at the time of the accident, so he got badly injured. 11/2/2020 57

If he had been wearing his belt at the time of the accident he wouldn’t have been injured. 11/2/2020 58

Had you bought that car, you’d not have had all that trouble. 11/2/2020 59

If it hadn’t been for you, I would have burnt the fish. 11/2/2020 60

MIXED TYPE 11/2/2020 61

I spent all my money foolishly, and I’m broke now. 11/2/2020 62

If I hadn’t spent all my money foolishly I wouldn’t be broke now. 11/2/2020 63

He is a rude man, because he rebuked his wife in front of others. 11/2/2020 64

If he weren’t a rude man he wouldn’t have rebuked his wife in front of others. 11/2/2020 65

The boy didn’t listen to his parents last year, so he is in trouble now. 11/2/2020 66

If the boy had listened his parents last year he wouldn’t be in troulde now. 11/2/2020 67

He didn’t go to the doctor and he isn’t alive now. 11/2/2020 68

Had he gone to the doctor he might be alive today. 11/2/2020 69

Exercises If clause 11/2/2020 70

I've hung out the clothes. It's lovely and sunny; if it . . . . (stay) like this they . . (be) dry in two hours. 11/2/2020 71

I've hung out the clothes. It's lovely and sunny; if it stays. . like this they. . will be. . . dry in two hours. 11/2/2020 72

French is essential in this job. All the telephonists speak it. If they. . . . (not know) French they. . . (not understand) half the callers. 11/2/2020 73

French is essential in this job. All the telephonists speak it. If they did not know French they would not understand half the callers. 11/2/2020 74

How did you do in the car rally? ~ We came in last actually; but only because we got lost. If we. . . (not got) lost we. . . (come) in somewhere in the middle. We certainly. . . (not be) last. 11/2/2020 75

How did you do in the car rally? ~ We came in last actually; but only because we got lost. If we had not got lost we would have come in somewhere in the middle. We certainly would not have been last. 11/2/2020 76

A group of spectators, including myself, left the stand just before the end of the game. 11/2/2020 77

down the stairs a goal was scored and there was a great cheer from the spectators. If there. . . . (not be) a goal the cr 6 11/2/2020 78

A group of spectators, including myself, left the stand just before the end of the game. 11/2/2020 79

When we were half way down the stairs a goal was scored and there was a great cheer from the spectators. If there had not been a goal the crowd would not have cheered. 11/2/2020 80

If the crowd. . . (not cheer) we. . . (not run) back up the stairs to see what had happened. 11/2/2020 81

If the crowd had not cheered we would have not run back up the stairs to see what had happened. 11/2/2020 82

If the pain. . . (return) you'd better take another pill. 11/2/2020 83

If the pain returns you'd better take another pill. 11/2/2020 84

If you aren't going to live in the house why you. . . (not sell) it? If I. . . (have) a house I couldn't use I. . . (sell) it at once. 11/2/2020 85

If you aren't going to live in the house why do not you sell it? If I had a house I couldn't use I would sell it at once. 11/2/2020 86

Tell him to bring his bicycle inside. If he. . (leave) it outside someone . . . (steal) it. 11/2/2020 87

Tell him to bring his bicycle inside. If he leaves it outside someone will steal it. 11/2/2020 88

Why do people always wear dark clothes at night? If pedestrians. . . (wear) light coloured clothes drivers. . . (see) them much more easily. 11/2/2020 89

Why do people always wear dark clothes at night? If pedestrians wore light coloured clothes drivers would see them much more easily. 11/2/2020 90

She must have loved him very much because she waited for him for fifteen years. If she. . . (not love) him she. . . (not wait) so long. 11/2/2020 91

She must have loved him very much because she waited for him for fifteen years. If she had not loved him she would not have waited so long. 11/2/2020 92

He looked so small and weak that nobody asked him to do anything. If he . . . (look) strong he. . . (be) expected to dig all day like everyone else. 11/2/2020 93

He looked so small and weak that nobody asked him to do anything. If he had looked strong he would have been expected to dig all day like everyone else. 11/2/2020 94

The government are talking of pulling the village down to make room for an airport. ~ If they. . . (start) doing it the village people. . . (resist)? 11/2/2020 95

The government are talking of pulling the village down to make room for an airport. ~ If they start doing it, will the village people resist? 11/2/2020 96

If you are catching an early train tomorrow you . . (like ) to have breakfast at 7. 00? 11/2/2020 97

If you are catching an early train tomorrow would you like to have breakfast at 7. 00? 11/2/2020 98

When he left school he became a fisherman. His family didn't like it at all. They. . . (be) much happier if he. . . (become) a greengrocer like his father. 11/2/2020 99

When he left school he became a fisherman. His family didn't like it at all. They would have been much happier if he had become a greengrocer like his father. 11/2/2020 100

They still say that if he . . . (go) into the greengrocery business when he left school he . . . (be) comfortably off now instead of being poor. 11/2/2020 101

They still say that if he had gone into the greengrocery business when he left school he would be comfortably off now instead of being poor. 11/2/2020 102

But he says that if he. . . (have) his life again he. . . (make) the same choice. 11/2/2020 103

But he says that if he had his life again he would make the same choice. 11/2/2020 104

So many parcels and no baskets! If I. . . (know) that we were going to buy so much I. . . (bring) a basket. 11/2/2020 105

So many parcels and no baskets! If I had known that we were going to buy so much I would have brought a basket. 11/2/2020 106

I can hear the speaker all right but I wish I could see him too. 11/2/2020 107

~ If he. . . (stand) on a barrel we all. . . (see) him and that. . . (be) much better. 11/2/2020 108

I can hear the speaker all right but I wish I could see him too. ~ If he stood on a barrel we all would all see him and that would be much better. 11/2/2020 109

Look at poor Tom trying to start his car by hand again! If I. . . (be) Tom I. . . (get) a new battery. 11/2/2020 110

Look at poor Tom trying to start his car by hand again! If I were Tom I would get a new battery. 11/2/2020 111

I expect you'll see Jack at the lecture tonight. If you . . . (do) you please. . . (remind) him about tomorrow's meeting? 11/2/2020 112

I expect you'll see Jack at the lecture tonight. If you do you please remind him about tomorrow's meeting? Or (would you please remind) 11/2/2020 113

The headmaster decided that Peter was the culprit and expelled him from the school. 11/2/2020 114

(realize) that Peter couldn't have been guilty. (If the headmaster had been more intelligent he. . ) 11/2/2020 115

The headmaster decided that Peter was the culprit and expelled him from the school. 11/2/2020 116

would have realized that Peter couldn't have been guilty. (If the headmaster had been more intelligent he. . ) 11/2/2020 117

But I blame the real culprit even more. If he … (admit) his guilt Peter. . (not be) expelled. 11/2/2020 118

But I blame the real culprit even more. If he had admited his guilt Peter would not have been exp elled. 11/2/2020 119

The only thing I haven't got is a balcony. If I (have) a balcony I. . (grow) plants in pots. Then my flat. . . (be) perfect! 11/2/2020 120

The only thing I haven't got is a balcony. If I had a balcony I would grow plants in pots. Then my flat would be perfect! 11/2/2020 121

Jack rang while you were out. ~ Oh dear! If I. . . (know) he was going to ring I. . . (stay) at home. 11/2/2020 122

Jack rang while you were out. ~ Oh dear! If I had known he was going to ring I would have stayed at home. 11/2/2020 123

My unmarried friends are always telling me how to bring up my children. I sometimes think that if they. . . (have) children they (make). . . just as many mistakes as I do. 11/2/2020 124

My unmarried friends are always telling me how to bring up my children. I sometimes think that if they had children they would make just as many mistakes as I do. 11/2/2020 125