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Grammar Videos: Third Conditional - Exercises: 1. Check Your Understanding: Matching

This document provides exercises to practice the third conditional, which is used to talk about hypothetical situations in the past. It includes a matching exercise with sentence halves, a cloze exercise filling in words to complete conditional sentences, and a gap fill exercise completing sentences using the third conditional form. The discussion at the end prompts considering how one's life may have been different if they had been born a different gender.

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Grammar Videos: Third Conditional - Exercises: 1. Check Your Understanding: Matching

This document provides exercises to practice the third conditional, which is used to talk about hypothetical situations in the past. It includes a matching exercise with sentence halves, a cloze exercise filling in words to complete conditional sentences, and a gap fill exercise completing sentences using the third conditional form. The discussion at the end prompts considering how one's life may have been different if they had been born a different gender.

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Grammar videos: Third conditional – exercises

o on our website and read the conversation between Sophie and Yuna. Then do these exercises to check your understanding of the th

1. Check your understanding: matching


Match the two sentence halves and write a–g next to the numbers 1–7.

1…….. I wouldn't have overslept a. if you'd asked.

2…….. If she had gone to bed earlier, b. you wouldn't have been so stressed at the last minute.

3…….. I could have lent you the money c. she wouldn't have been so tired.

4…….. They wouldn’t have found out d. if you had studied medicine.

5…….. You could have been a doctor e. if my alarm clock had gone off.

6…….. If you'd been more organised, f. they wouldn't have had so many problems.

7…….. If they’d taken my advice, g. if you hadn't told them.

2. Check your grammar: word 2 word


Write the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1. have told me. would if remembered I you’d

…………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..
2. would had have revised more, passed the exam. she If she

…………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..
3. the train If we have hadn’t missed we would arrived on time.

…………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..
4. If been there have met him. you’d could you

…………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..
Grammar videos: Third conditional – exercises
5. I If could have I’d known helped.

…………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..
6. if could have gone wanted to. You you’d

…………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..

3. Check your grammar: gap fill


Complete the sentences using the third conditional.

1. He didn't get the job. He couldn't buy a bigger flat.


= If he'd got the job, a bigger flat.

2. You didn't say you were sorry. She left.


= She wouldn't have left if you were sorry.

3. You didn't tell us earlier. We didn't do anything.


= We could have done something us earlier.

4. You stopped quickly. We didn't crash.


= If you hadn't stopped quickly, crashed.

5. You didn't listen to me. This happened.


= This never would have happened if you to me.

6. You didn't apply for the job. You didn't get an interview.
= You might if you'd applied for the job.

7. I went to the party. You persuaded me to go.


= I wouldn't have me to go.

8. I didn't know she was coming. I didn’t wait for her.


= I would if I'd known she was coming.

Discussion

If you had been born a boy/girl, how would your life have been different?

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