XIV CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

   

   Put in the missing verbs forms.

   

   The family party was in full swing when the phone rang. Dr Craig answered it. He listened
   carefully for a moment, then said, "I’ll come right away." "Do you have to go out?" his wife
   asked. "If it is an urgent case, I have to go," Dr Craig answered. "If I (should) should be
   late, please don’t wait up for me." Dr Craig drove into the night. If I don’t hurry, he
   thought, I (might) might be too late. The thought made him drive faster. After driving for an
   hour, he arrived at a house. All the lights were on. If all the family is up, the doctor
   thought, the situation (must) must be serious. A woman opened the front door immediately.
   "Thank God you’ve come, doctor," she cried. "It’s my daughter." A sleepy child of about six
   appeared in a night-dress. "I told her," her mother said, "‘(go) go to bed, or I’ll fetch the
   doctor’." "See," she shouted at the child. "I’ve done it. Here’s the doctor!"

   

   Put in the right conditionals.

   

   Grygori Pilikian recently celebrated his 114th birthday and reporters visited him in his
   mountain village in Georgia to find out the secret of a long life. "The secret of a long
   life," Grygori said, "is happiness. If you (be) are happy, you will live a long life." "Are
   you married?" a reporter asked. "Yes," Grygori replied, "I married my third wife when I was
   102. If you are happily married, you (live) (will) live for ever. But for my third wife, I
   (die) would/should have died (or: might/could have died) years ago." "What about smoking and
   drinking?" a reporter asked. "Yes, they are important," Grygori said. "Don’t smoke at all and
   you (feel) will feel well. Drink two glasses of wine a day and you (be) will be healthy and
   happy." "If you (can/live) could live your life again, what (you/do) would you do?" a reporter
   asked. "I would do what I have done. If I had had more sense, I (eat) would have eaten more
   yoghurt!" he chuckled. "Supposing you (can/change) could change/could have changed one thing
   in your life what (you/change) would you change/would you have changed?" another reporter
   asked. "Not much," Grygori replied. "So you don’t have any regrets?" "Yes, I have one regret,"
   Grygori replied. "If I (know) had known I was going to live so long, I (look after) would have
   looked after myself better!"

   

   Complete the sentences with the verbs in parentheses. Some of the verbs are passive.

   - Suggested answers

   1 If I could speak Japanese, I (spend) would spend next year studying in Japan.

   2 Had I known Mr. Jung was in the hospital, I (send) would have sent him a note and some
   flowers.

   3 We will move into our new house next month if it (complete) is completed by then.

   4 How old (be, you) would you be now if you (be) had been born in the year 1900?

   5 It is too bad that it is snowing. If it (snow, not) weren’t snowing, we could go for a
   drive.

   6 I was very tired. Otherwise, I (go) would have gone to the party with you last night.

   7 I am broke, but I (have) would have plenty of money now if I (spend, not) hadn’t spent so
   much yesterday.

   8 That child had a narrow escape. She (hit) would have been hit by a car if her father (pull,
   not) hadn’t pulled her out of the street.

   9 I am glad I have so many friends and such a wonderful family. Life without any friends or
   family (be) would be lonely for me.

   10 My grand father is no longer alive, but if he (be) were, I am sure he (be) would be proud
   of me.

   11 If you (sleep, not) hadn’t been sleeping last night when we arrived, I would have asked you
   to go with us, but I did not want to wake you up.

   12 Bill has such a bad memory that he (forget) would forget his head if it (be, not) were not
   attached to his body.

   13 According to one report, the average hen lays 247 eggs a year, and the average person eats
   255 eggs a year. If hens (outnumber, not) didn’t outnumber people, the average person (eat,
   not) wouldn’t eat 255 eggs a year.