Third Conditional
Name: Result: __/40 Date: __/__/20__
1. If they ____________________ the plot, they had helped to carry it
through as nobody else _____________________ it through.
(not/organize) (carry)
2. If Joe _______________ under water he _____________________.
(not/be) (laugh)
3. If I _______________ him I _______________________ him then and
there, and got my body full of lead while doing it. (believe) (strangle)
4. If General Lee ______________________ not to have prisoners starved or
abused, does any one doubt that he _______________________ these
things? (passive/determine) (prevent)
5. If it ______________, only one thing ______________________.
(stop) (happen)
6. But death ___________________ them from me if misfortune
_____________ them. (take) (spare)
7. If you ________________ this assurance I don't suppose you
_______________ anything upon the subject. (not/want) (say)
8. He __________________ even better if he ____________ he was so close
to these figures. (do) (know)
9. It __________________ intolerable shame to her if she ____________
that she was watched, through a little hole in the door, as a precaution
against any attempt on her life. (be) (know)
10. He was certain that he __________________ the tent if it ___________
there before he left, for it was within plain view of the road. (see) (be)
11. He had mistaken it probably for his own; if he ______________ to blow
his nose, he ______________________. (chance) (realize)
12. _____________________________________ if the money
________________? (what difference/it/make/?) (passive/go)
13. If he __________ the slightest suspicion of his brother, he
____________________ him on the spot. (have) (kill)
14. If you ___________ us alone you _____________________ it.
(leave) (not/get)
15. Ruth Leigh ____________________ grimly if any one _____________
her beautiful, but then she did not know how she looked sometimes when her
feelings were touched. (smile) (call)
16. If I ________________ what I sought on this first trip, I
___________________ another, a dozen, a score, until I found the
information I sought. (not/find) (take)
17. He ___________________ it himself, if he ___________ then.
(build) (live)
18. If it _______________ for the little black boy she
______________________ entirely. (not/be) (give up)
19. But he consoled himself with the thought that she must understand him; if
he _____________ he _____________________ himself clearer.
(speak) (not/make)
20. If I ______________ it worth while, I _________________________ him
about that, even. (think) (not/trouble)
