ECPE DECEMBER

SUBJECT: INVERTED CONDITIONALS

1st type: If you are in doubt, don’t hesitate to conduct us for clarifications. =
If you SHOULD be in doubt, don’t hesitate to conduct us for clarifications.
SHOULD you be in doubt, don’t hesitate to conduct us for clarifications.

2nd type: If I believed his story, I would support him. =

If I WERE to believe his story, I would support him.
WERE I to believe his story, I would support him.
(If I were to believe his story, I would support him)

3rd type: If we had known the truth from the start, there wouldn’t have been so
much trouble.
HAD we known the truth from the start, there wouldn’t have been so much trouble.

Choose the correct answer

1. If we hadn’t taken a wrong turning here, we wouldn’t be / have been in this mess now.
2. Should / Would you need any further assistance, please let me know.
3. Had they not / Hadn’t they warned people in time, a lot more lives could have been lost.
4. If you worked / had worked last weekend, then you wouldn’t have to work this one.
5. Were all the members of the staff to attend the conference, would the hotel have / have had enough rooms
for everyone?
6. Weren’t we / Were we not to build more roads, the traffic system would collapse by 2020.
7. You can contact the hotel manager on extension 322 should / could you need to.

Rewrite the sentences using Inverted Conditionals.

1. He would never have been able to afford such a car if he hadn’t worked so hard.
_____________________________________________had he not worked ___________________________
2. If someone happens to call, will you let me know?
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3. If he decided to leave the company, they would be happy to give him a good reference.
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4. If the civil war continues, many people will be forced to leave their home.
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5. If we stopped using fossil fuels tomorrow, it would still take decades for the planet to recover.
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6. If Darwin hadn’t visited the Galapagos Islands, he might never have developed his theory of evolution.
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7. If you saw someone dropping litter in the street, what would you do?
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8. If the weather allows it, we will go up the mountains this weekend.
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9. If specialists hadn’t helped me, I wouldn’t have been able to quit gambling.
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10. If the government introduced a new tax on cigarettes, would it make more people quit smoking?
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