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Change the following sentences into mixed conditionals.
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Example: I’m not very fit so I didn’t go mountain climbing.
If I was very fit, I would have gone mountain climbing.
1. I’m careless, that’s why I made so many mistakes.
2. Mary is ill because she didn’t follow the doctor’s orders.
3. He doesn’t know French well so he didn’t help them to translate the article.
4. Ann didn’t see the film so she can’t tell you it is worth seeing or not.
5. I’m not you, so I didn’t tell her the truth.
6. She didn’t finish the composition yesterday, so she can’t begin a new project today.
7. Our parents used to be very good friends. That’s why we are good friends too.
8. The room is full of mosquitoes because you left the door open.
9. Peter is so good at languages that he passed the exam without revising at all.
10. He looks tired because he worked all the time.
Mixed conditionals
Translate the sentences into English
1. Якби він працював регулярно протягом усього семестру, зараз він би не боявся екзаменів.
2. Якби ми відіслали листа учора, вони б отримали його завтра вранці.
3. Якби ми знали його домашню адресу, ми б повідомили йому про результати екзаменів ще вчора.
4. Ви б краще знали мову, якби прочитали влітку декілька книжок англійською мовою.
5. Якби він мав почуття гумору, він би не образився.
6. Якби вони були закохані один в одного, вони б давно одружилися.
7. Якби я приніс словник, я зміг би перекласти цю статтю сьогодні.
Wishes (If only)
| Form | Use | |
| wish/if only (regret about the present) | + past simple/past continuous | we’d like something to be different in the present |
I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
She wishes she could play the piano. (She cannot play the piano.)
| Form | Use | |
| wish/if only (regret about the past) | + past perfect | regret that something happened or didn’t happen in the past |
If only you had told me about your problems. (You didn’t tell me about your problems.)
| Form | Use | |
| wish/if only (impossible wish for a future change) | + would + bare infinitive | a) polite request implying dissatisfaction or lack of hope; b) to express our desire for a change in a situation or wish to express dissatisfaction |
I wish he would stop making that noise. (But I don’t think he will.)
I wish you would be more careful and attentive! (Please be more careful and attentive!)
In wishes, we go one tense back. This means that we use the Past Simple in the present or the Past Perfect in the past.
She is not here. I wish she were here. (present)
I didn’t tell him about it yesterday. I wish I had told him about it yesterday.
Practice