Join the main clauses in X with the if clauses in Y.
X
Y
2.
b.
The dress might have been perfect...
Tejas would have asked the doctor many
more questions...
She would have stopped talking to you...
They could have enjoyed their holiday a lot
if you had not attended the meeting.
if they had stayed longer and seen the
places around.
if it hadn't been so expensave.
if he had seen him before the surgery.
more...
I wouldn't have been here today...
The child might have been cheerful.
6.
f
If he had eaten a snack before the show
if i hadn't received such a warm
invitation from you!
Answers
If the weather improves, we’ll go for a walk. (It is possible or likely that the weather will improve.)
If the weather improved, we could go for a walk. (It is not likely that the weather will improve.)
If the weather had improved, we could have gone for a walk. (The weather did not improve – fine weather is therefore an impossible condition.)
These types of conditions are used in three types of sentences, called first, second and third conditional sentences.
Imagined conditions: the first conditional
We use the first conditional to talk about the result of an imagined future situation, when we believe the imagined situation is quite likely:
[imagined future situation]
If the taxi doesn’t come soon,
[future result]
I’ll drive you myself.
First conditional: form
conditional clause
main clause
if + present simple
modal verb with future meaning (shall/should/will/would/can/could/may/might)
If he gets a job in Liverpool,
he’ll have to get up early. It’s a long drive.
If Sheila rings,
I might ask her to come over for dinner.
Warning:
We use the modal verb in the main clause, not in the conditional clause.
If a lawyer reads the document, we will see if we’ve missed anything important.
Not: If a lawyer will read the document…