CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

I. Choose the best option to complete these sentences.

1. What ____________ you do if you got fat?
A. would B. will C. do D. did
2. If you ____________ ten minutes earlier, you would have got a seat.
A. arrive B. will arrive C. had arrived D. arrived
3. If it ____________ convenient, let's meet at three o'clock.
A. was B. is C. were D. had been
4. If I had known that the baby was hungry, I ____________ him.
A. fed B. will feed C. had fed D. would have fed
5. If it ____________ a lot, the rice crop wouldn't grow well.
A. doesn't rain B. didn't rain C. hadn't rained D. won't rain
6. If he ____________ interrupted, he can finish the work on time.
A. wasn't B. weren't C. isn't D. hadn't been
7. If you ____________ more slowly, he might have understood you.
A. speak B. spoke C. have spoken D. had spoken
8. If she had more practice, she ____________ English better.
A. would speak B. will speak C. would have spoken D. speaks
9. If you study harder, you ____________ the exam.
A. would pass B. would have passed C. will pass D. pass
10. What would you do if you ____________ a billionaire?
A. are B. were C. had been D. have been
11. Don't come if you ____________ free.
A. aren't B. weren't C. won't be D. hadn't been
12. I will call the police ____________ you give my bike back to me.
A. if B. when C. unless D. that
13. We won't go out ____________ it stops raining.
A. unless B. that C. if D. when
14. If I had had a typewriter, I ____________ it myself.
A. will type B. would type C. would have typed D. should type
15. He ____________ a lot better if he had shaved more often.
A. would have looked B. will look
C. would look D. looks
16. If he had worked more slowly, he ____________ so many mistakes.
A. won't make B. wouldn't have made
C. wouldn't make D. didn't make
17. More tourists would have come to this country if the weather ____ nice.
A. had been B. were C. is D. will be
18. If you ____________ the walls white, the room would have been much brighter.
A. paint B. painted C. had painted D. have painted
19. I could have repaired the roof myself if I ____________ a long ladder.
A. had had B. had C. have D. will have
20. If he had been at home, he ____________ the phone.
A. will answer B. would have answered C. answers D. would answer
21. If the earth suddenly ____________ moving now, we all ____________ off it.
A. stops / will fly B. stopped / would fly
C. stopped / will fly D. had stopped / would have flown
22. The rain destroyed our picnic.
If it ____________, it ____________ a great success.
A. didn't rain / would have been B. doesn't rain / will be
C. hadn't rained / would have been D. didn't rain / would be
23. Tell Tim to ring me if you ____________ him.
A. see B. saw C. had seen D. have seen
24. If I were rich, I ____________ a hospital for the poor.
A. will build B. build C. would build D. would have built
25. If you ____________ kind to me, I will be good to you.
A. were B. are C. was D. had been
26. If it rained, the crops ____________ a failure.
A. would not be B. won't be C. aren't D. wouldn't have been
II. Rewrite these sentences.
1. Keep silent or you won't understand the lesson.
=> If ________________________________________________________
4. I don't know his address. I can't give it to you.
=> If ________________________________________________________
5. He is very slow, so we won't give him such an important task.
=> If ________________________________________________________
6. He works very hard because he has to pay his father's debt.
=> If ________________________________________________________
7. Jack often gets bad marks because he is too lazy.
=> If ________________________________________________________
8. She feels lonely because she is an only child.
=> If ________________________________________________________
9. Tim drinks too much alcohol every day, that’s why he has a lot of stomach problems.
=> If ________________________________________________________
11. The weather will not rain. We will go camping.
=> If ________________________________________________________
12. She loses weight quickly because she does exercise regularly.
=> If _________________________________________________________
13. Jane didn’t help me, so I didn’t respect her a lot.
=> If _________________________________________________________
14. Hurry up, or you will miss the train.
=> If _________________________________________________________
15. Don’t talk in class, or you won’t understand the lesson.
=> If _________________________________________________________