Conditional Sentences (Mixed Types)
Conditional Sentences (Mixed Types)
Exercise 1:
1 If you (find) a skeleton in the cellar, don't mention it to anyone.
6 If someone offered to buy you one of those rings, which you (choose)?
10 You would play better bridge if you (not talk) so much.
12 If you (read) the instructions carefully, you wouldn't have answered the wrong question.
16 We'll have a long way to walk if we (run) out of petrol here.
17 If you shake that bottle of port, it (not be) fit to drink.
18 I'll probably get lost unless he (come) with me.
19 You (not have) so many accidents if you drove more slowly.
20 If you (wear) a false beard, nobody would have recognized you.
21 If she (leave) the fish there, the car will get it.
22 Unless they leave a lamp beside that hole in the road, somebody (fall) into it.
23 You'll get pneumonia if you (not change) your wet clothes.
24 If I had known that you couldn't eat octopus, I (not buy) it.
25 If they (hang) that picture lower, people would be able to see it.
26 She (be able) to walk faster if her shoes hadn't such high heels.
27 I (bring) you some beer if I had known that you were thirsty.
28 If you had touched that electric cable, you (be) elecrocuted.
29 If the story hadn't been true, the newspaper (not print) it.
35 The ship would have run around if the pilot (make) one mistake.
Exercise 2: Type I, II or III: Decide whether the following Conditional Sentences are Type I, II or II.
1. If he had dropped the vase, it would have broken. 6. If you had listened to me, the accident wouldn't have
happened.
Type I Type II Type III
2. If you have to do the washing up, I will help you. Type I Type II Type III
7. If we don't get tickets for the concert, we'll stay at home.
Type I Type II Type III
3. If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning ... (song) Type I Type II Type III
8. They'd go by bus if they didn't have a car.
Type I Type II Type III
4. I wouldn't run away if I saw a spider. Type I Type II Type III
9. She'll hear us if you don't stop laughing.
Type I Type II Type III
5. We'd have given you a lift if you hadn't had your bike Type I Type II Type III
with you. 10. He wouldn't have taken the bread if he hadn't been
hungry.
Type I Type II Type III
Type I Type II Type III
Exercise 3: Complete the Conditional Sentences (Type I, II or III) by putting the verbs into the correct form.
have
1. If they (have) time at the weekend, they will come to see us.
10. I would not have read your diary if you (not hide) it in such an obvious place.
Exercise on Conditional Sentences Type I, II and III