12 GRAMMAR Conditionals 1 Conditions and results © Sentences with if where one event depends nn another event ate called conditinrals. The if... dause isthe condition and the other part of the sentence is the result. Here ane fou example of conitionals sed for ang bout checking tthe aero for alight: 0 Ifyou arrive early, you get a better sat, 1 Wyou arvive early, you'll get beticr set. 2 A you arrived early, you'd get « better sea. 3 if you had arrived early, you'd have gota bette seat © Sentence (is talking generally about something that is always truc, It is called x aero conditional, ‘Sentence 1 describes what someone thinks will happen in a teal situation. You believe ‘that the things you are talking about will happen. [tis callec.a real condition oF the nce 2 desc yen in the future, or things you can imagine gary condition or the second conditional, can imagine happening in the past Its impossible to an impossible condition, or the third conditionalTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE PRACTICE seta fiend Yous etn as Put Some eae ing © Example: You are at the superna hogs atthe same time. You $3): bag, and is picking up lors of other yeu carry too muny bags, you'll dvap te ERS. you drop the eggs, shey'll break. Hike eggs break. there willbe an awful meson the floor! you are carga, you won't break the. “© Inthe condition clause its possible to use other present tenses; not just the present ‘Ef you're driving, [li came with you. (present continuous) Af Tve seen the film before, tl tet you know! (present pertect) ‘Second conditional: + past simple, ... would/wouldn'eGRAMMAR 12 CONDITIONALS 1 ‘1 Underline the correct word or phrase in each sentence. 1 If weit be/we're late for class, our teacher Will be/was angry, 2 If we would live/lived on another planet, we'll see/well see the Earth in the sky. 3. lf we take/will take a taxi, we arrivedéwe'll arrive sooner, 4 Wwe won't luurry/don't hurry, we'll be/wel be late, 5. Lf we were/are birds, we would be able tofare able to fly. 6 Ifyou don't wear/wouldn't wear your pullover, you'll feel/you felt cold. (7 AFL studiee/will study harder, | get/would ger better marks, & eth: Trode/fil ride tt to school. 9 Tf yur bike, ll let let you borrow my skateboard, lation using the verbs given. Fe rar teens your says: Suddenly the bos aries. ‘The ‘eatching the bus. You say: s. You are not sure about You arrange toINTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE PRACTICE 3 Complete each sentence using f unless or would. 1 Ht he asked me te hil Bit» 2 Well have lunch outsise in the garden, it's to cold, coctwin more races if he trained harder, con: We burry, welll miss the plane! you take a seat, please, go to the cinema with YOU, IF VOU ake 8 Ee ereoemrergt are mek a Hen ee enigheBoe = conditional 2 uidn’t + have + past Third conditional: if + past perfect, --- would/wol articiple : hi * fence inapines: post event that didnt actual happen, and its possible @ This type of seatence imagines a results in the past. cinuinan if you ed arrived earlier, we wouldn't have missed te in. if you had warned me about the sin, f world have gat stn! ‘@ Example: Your went firra long watk, but yeudid not take your umbrella, lt panned, and ‘You got wet. AFL ad taken vay wonbetia, I woulde’t have gat wet, Wi'd heard the veather forest, | wouldn't have gome Out Uf hada’ gore ot, F would have finished my homework Modal verbs in conditional sentences © The cxamples in Grammar 12 and this unithave'all used will/won't or would wuld’? 4m the result cause, Wecan also use any other modal verb, like ca, cll, or; mite, ‘you ever come to At, cam shove you aroun the city you ever come to Ltanbul, onc must phone me. ‘We cten use (certain result) (uncertain result) (certain result) (uncertain result)—————-—TREMTART SOMO 1 Rewrite each comment, beginning as shown. Do not change the meaning. 1 Supposing you had wings, what would you do? What woula yor.da if you. nad. wings... 2. Why don’t you leave now? Thats what Ii do, If. Imagine you lived on Mars, How would you feel? How se sincanmicuasse 4 I think you should buy a bike, That's what I'd do. If. 5. Imagine you were rich, What would you do? Wa reenter 6 Supposing Jim came with us, what would you say? WIA eesescseenrseennsttennner nonce 7 Why don't you take the bus? Thats what 1d do. o e might feel/had felt better. yy; he wouldn't have crashed/didn’t crash.