- •Olga a. Berezina, Yelena m. Shpilyuk
- •IV. The Present Progressive Passive …………………………………...132
- •6 Foreword предисловие
- •Авторы the article Usage of Articles
- •Bay of Bengal
- •Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- •17 The adjective and the pronoun
- •Some, Any, No
- •Not versus No
- •Much, Many, Few, Little
- •Other, The Other, Another
- •25 Different Meanings and Usage of: All, Each, Either, Neither, Every, Both
- •31 The adjective and the adverb
- •Degrees of Comparison
- •Present Simple
- •II. The Past Simple Tense
- •III The Future Simple Tense
- •The "Going To" Form
- •II. The Past Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Progressive Tense
- •I. The Present Perfect Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Tense
- •I. The Ptesent Perfect Progressive Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Progressive Tense
- •I. The Past Simple Passive
- •II Present Simple Passive
- •III. The Future Simple Passive
- •IV. The Present Progressive Passive
- •V. The Past Progressive Passive
- •VI. The Present Perfect Passive
- •VII. The Past Perfect Passive
- •VIII. The Future Perfect Passive
- •139 The Imperative Mood
- •Modal Verbs can, could
- •May, might
- •Exercise 5
- •149 Must, to be to, to have to
- •Should, ought to
- •Recapitulation of the modal verbs
- •Conditional Sentences
- •II type
- •III type
- •If it were not for ...
- •If it hadn’t been for ... But for ...
- •189 The modal verbs "could" and "might" in conditional sentences
- •Recapitulation of conditional sentences
- •The Complex Object
- •Indirect Speech
- •Modal verbs in indirect speech
- •227 Passive voice in indirect speech
- •Conditional sentences in indirect speech
- •231 Recapitulation of indirect speech
- •Troublesome Verbs
- •244 The Participle
- •246 Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •248 Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •250 Appendix 3 conditional sentences
Recapitulation of conditional sentences
Exercise 1
Complete the following sentences.
They would work harder if...
2. They will refund your money if...
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If I were better paid ...
He might have failed his test if...
If I could afford this tour...
Would you change your job if... ?
If you look through the manual...
What will he do if... ?
I'd be very happy if...
I'd be very miserable if...
But for his total lack of courage ...
If he deckled to apply for this job ...
If you leave your books at home ...
If he tries to pass off as an American ...
They'd never make any money if...
He'd be extremely angry if...
If he is promoted ...
If he loses his job ...
If he had lost his job last year ...
If you apologize ...
If he were fired...
If it hadn't been for that traffic jam ...
You wouldn't have fallen ill if ....
She'll sooner feel better if she ...
Will you take great care of this book if... ?
They wouldn't mind if we ...
I wouldn't have smoked so much if ...
I might give you my car if ,..
If we don't protect wildlife now...
Don't give him anything unless he ...
Would you have sold your bike if... 7
Don't speak to her unless she ...
If my flat were broken into ...
But for the price ...
She'd have more friends if...
Exercise 2
Supply the correct form of the infinitives in brackets.
1. If you (to be) interested hi life it never (to let) you down.
(G. Greene)
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2. The slip showed an overdraft of fifty dollars... 'Oh, the bank's not worrying, Mr. Wormold.' Wormold thought, If the overdraft (to be) fifty thousand dollars he (to call) me Jim.
(G. Greene)
3. If something (to happen) to me I (not to want) you to learn from these files what a fraud I had been.
(G. Greene)
4. I'm not the crazy type. I (not to be) a seller of vacuum cleaners if I (to be) the crazy type.
(G. Greene)
5. Robert: Why didn't you come forward at the inquest? Freda: If it could (to help) Martin, I (to go).
(J.B. Priestly)
6. Stantоn: It must have been agony for her to go away and not hear any more.
Gordon: She (not to go) if she (to think) she'd have heard any more.
(J.B. Priestly)
7. I (to be going to) have an awful headache if I (to stay) any longer.
(J. B. Priestly)
8. I wasn't one of his pets like you and Martin. If the old man (to think) for a minute that I'd done it,1here (to be) none of this hush-hush business, he (to feel) like calling in the police.
(J.B. Priestly)
9. The whole thing was over and done with. What (to happen) if I (to confess)?
(J.B. Priestly)
10. Robert: Is that true?
Stantоn: I (not to say) it if I (not to know) it was true.
(J.B. Priestly)
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11. I'm not in love with him. I (not to marry) him if I (can).
(J. В. Priestly)
12. Betty:... We put up a good show, didn't we? Gordon: What (to happen) if we (to go on) pretending ... to be happy together?
Betty: Nothing.
Gordon: No. If we (to go on) pretending long enough,...we might (to be) happy together.
(J. B. Priestly)
13. ... I want to finish this picture today. You (to think) it awfully rude of me if I (to ask) you to go away?
(O. Wilde)
I feel sure that if I (to live) in the country for six months, I (to become) so unsophisticated that no one (to take) the slightest notice of me.
(O. Wilde)
15. If we (to be going to) be invaded by relations, there (to be) only one thing to do.
(G. Durrell)
16. ‘I could teach him to sail.'
'But, dear, that really (not to be) much use to him later on ... unless he (to be going) into the Merchant Navy or something.'
(G. Durrell)
17. There's plenty of room if the place (to be organized) properly. If Маrgо and Les (to sleep) out on the veranda, that (to give) you two rooms; you and Gerry could (to move) into the drawing-room, and that (to leave) those rooms free.
(G. Durrell)
18. '... We can't keep rushing to and fro about the island ... people will think we've gone mad.'
They (to think) we're even madder if that old harpy (to turn up).'
(G. Durrell)
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Exercise 3
Write a short composition on one of the following topics.
If I were a millionaire.
If I were a film-star.
If I were the President.
If I were Miss/Mister Universe.
If I were the Governor of St. Petersburg/Moscow/my town.
If I found one thousand dollars.
If electricity had not been discovered.