Grammar notes

Conditional sentences

	English	Russian
1type – real condition	If I find this data, I’ll make some conclusions.	Если я найду эти данные, я приду к каким-либо выводам.
2type – unreal condition (present, future)	If I found this data, I would make some conclusions.	Если бы я нашел эти данные, я бы пришел к каким-либо выводам. (сейчас, в будущем)
3type – unreal condition (past)	If had found this data before, I would have made some conclusions.	Если бы до этого я нашел эти данные, я бы уже пришел к каким-либо выводам. (в прошлом)

Read the following conditional sentences, determine their type. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. If his hypotheses were true, they would become classic.

2. If such generalizations are assimilated to sociological theory, they will be found in the sociological literature.

3. It would be foolish to pretend that such questions can be readily resolved, either on a theoretical level or even in relation to concrete empirical problems.

4. From another point of view, it must be added that if men were really forced to project their own image into things, the first sacred beings would be conceived in their likeness.

5. If we were to imagine a continuum between pure research and pure practice, applied sociology would occupy a space in the middle of this continuum.

6. If the theory is true, we’ll find the solution.

7. If we had this definition the social wholeness it would mean that the organization is understood by its members as some stable social formation.

8. If the man didn’t belong to the multiple organizations, this task wouldn’t be difficult.

9. If the society didn’t influence the fates of many people, it wouldn’t be necessary to develop the model of its functioning and development.

10. If they had revealed the problem before, they wouldn’t have had to consider this question.

11. If the organization generally solves the ordinary problems the mechanism of development will not mean a lot and its functions will be executed by the leaders of the organization.

12. If the behavior and activity of the members are regulated, ability to self-development and self-training will appear.

13. If we analyzed the known concepts, we would understand the nature of the whole thing.

14. If they take this idea into account, they will be able to do the research.

15. If the theory is based on new models, sociology will use it.

16. If there is an ability to solve the problems, there will be an opportunity to adequately respond on calls.

17. Nothing could be more normal than an economic system consisting of markets.

18. If we remove land from the market, it will mean incorporation of land.

19. If they wanted to ensure freedom, they would follow this way.

20. If the governing elite is composed mostly of Class II types, then it will fall into a bureaucratic, inefficient and reactionary mess, easy prey for calculating upwardly-mobile Class I's.

21. If before proceeding with their researches mathematicians had insisted upon deciding whether or not the postulate of Euclid corresponded to concrete reality, geometry would not exist even today.

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