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Grammar 6

ADVERBIAL CLAUSES
Conditional sentences

Pre-class tasks
Quiz 1: 1st Conditional - Fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets
1. You (HAVE) to work harder if you want to pass the exam.
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2. You will be tired if you (NOT GO) to bed soon.
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3. If he (FIND) a good job, he will be able to pay all his bills.
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4. If you sell more than you did last year, you (EARN) more money.
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5. If the report is not on my desk by tomorrow, you (BE) in big trouble.
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Quiz 2: 2nd Conditional - Fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets
1. I (NOT LIKE) it very much if they gave Mark the job.
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2. I wouldn't get so angry with you if you (GET) more work done.
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3. If I knew how it worked I (TELL) you what to do.
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4. You (BE) smarter if you graduated from the university.
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5. What (YOU DO) if you found a one hundred dollar note on the sidewalk?
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Quiz 3: 3rd Conditional - Fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets
1. I would have bought the larger model if I (BE ABLE) to afford it.
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2. If he (NOT FALL) asleep, he would not have crashed his car.

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3. I (PHONE) Sally if I hadn't forgotten her phone number.
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4. If the wind hadn't been so strong, the bridge (NOT COLLAPSE).
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5. If it had rained yesterday, (YOU STAY) at home.
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Quiz 4: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses.
1. If I see him, I (give) _____________ him a gift.
2. If I had a typewriter, I (type) _____________ it myself.
3. If I had known that you were in hospital, I (visit) _____________ you.
4. You could make better progress if you (attend) _____________ class regularly.
5. If I (know) _____________ his telephone number, I’d give it to you.
6. If you (arrive) _____________ ten minutes earlier, you would have got a seat.
7. He could get a job easily if he (have) _____________ a degree.
8. I shouldn’t have believed it if I (not see) _____________ it with my own eyes.
9. If he (study) _____________ hard, he can pass the exam.
10. If she had asked you, you (accept) _____________?
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In-class tasks
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PRACTICE
Ex.1. Put the verbs into the correct form.
1. Rice plants (grow) _____________ well if there is enough rain.
2. He might get fat if he (stop) _____________ smoking.
3. What you (do) _____________ if you found a burglar in your house?
4. If she (not hurry) _____________, she may be late.
5. If I (try) _____________ again, I think that I would have succeeded.
6. Water (not run) _____________ downhill if there were not gravity.
7. If I tell you a secret, you (promise) _____________ not to tell it to anyone else?
8. Tell him to ring me if you (see) _____________ him.
9. The police (arrest) _____________ him if they catch him.
10. If you (speak) _____________ more slowly, he might have understood you.
Ex.2. Write a sentence with “if” for each situation.
1. You should take more exercise because that's the way to get fit.
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2. The accident happened because the driver in front stopped so suddenly.
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3. I haven't got a key, so I can't get in.
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4. Throw a stone into water and it sinks.
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5. I didn't have any breakfast, and now I'm hungry.
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6. Road travel is cheaper than rail travel in this country, so we have lots of traffic jams.
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7. Martin failed his driving test last week. He was very nervous and that's why he
failed.
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Ex.3. Use UNLESS instead of IF.

1. If you are not careful, you will cut yourself with that knife.
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2. If you do not like this one, I’ll bring you another.
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3. I’ll not be able to do any work if I do not have a quiet room.
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4. If she does not hurry, she’ll be late.
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5. If we had more rain, our crops would be better.
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6. The crops would have been ruined if the flood had risen higher.
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7. If you had not sneezed, he wouldn’t have known that we were there.
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8. If she did her hair differently, she would look quite nice.
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9. If John had played for our football team, we would not have lost the game.
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10. If I won a big prize in a lottery, I’d give up my job.
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Ex.4. Make conditional sentences according to the facts provided.
1. Keep silent or you’ll wake the baby up.
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2. Because you don’t leave immediately, I call a policeman.
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3. I don’t know her number, so I don’t ring her up.
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4. Go right now or you’ll be late for the train.

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5. As she is often absent from class, she can’t keep pace with her classmates.
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6. I couldn’t write to Alice because I didn’t know her address.
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7. I don’t know the answer, so I can’t tell you.
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8. We got lost because we didn’t have a map.
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9. His friends were so late, so they missed the train.
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10. Today isn’t Sunday, so the pupils can’t go swimming.
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