Unit 5 : Higher education : Test 3

UNIT 5: HIGHER EDUCATION

EXERCISES

I. Rewrite these sentences using conditional sentences

1.      Keep silent or you will wake up the baby

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2.      Because you do not leave immediately, I call the police

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3.      I don’t know her number, so I don’t ring her up.

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4.      Go right now or you can be late for the train.

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5.      I couldn’t write to Alice because I didn’t know her address.

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6.      His friends were so late, so they missed the train.

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7.      They didn’t know he had returned, so they didn’t visit him.

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8.      We played cards all night; that’s why we are exhausted now.

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9.      She didn’t answer the phone because she was busy washing the dishes.

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10.  Matt is overweight because he doesn’t go on a diet.

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11.  You should obey your parents, or you can be punished.

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12.  I didn’t do my homework last night, so I am doing it now.

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13.  You are so lazy; that’s why you always get bad marks at school.

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14.  My mother doesn’t go shopping today because she bought enough yesterday.

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15.  You should take an aspirin or your cold can get worse.

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16.  We are attending an English class, or else we can join you.

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17.  It was raining so heavily that they were wet through.

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18.  Today is not Sunday, so the students cannot go swimming.

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19.  Be careful, or you can cut yourself with that knife.

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20.  He has a flu because he went out in the rain last night.

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{ Answers:

1.      If you do not keep silent, you will wake up the baby

2.      I would call the police if you didn’t leave immediately

3.      If I knew her number, I would ring her up

4.      If you do not go right now, you will be late for the train

5.      I could have written to Alice if I had known her address

6.      If her friends had not been so late, they wouldn’t have missed the train

7.      They would have visited him if they had known that he had returned

8.      If we had not played cards all night, we wouldn’t be exhausted now

9.      She could have answered the phone if she had not been busy washing the dishes

10.  If matt went on a diet, he wouldn’t be overweight

11.  If you do not obey your parents, you can be punished

12.  If i had done my homework last night, I wouldn’t be doing it now

13.  If you were not lazy, you would not always get bad marks at school

14.  My mother would go shopping today if she had not bought enough yesterday

15.  Your cold can get worse if you don’t take an aspirin

16.  If we are not attending an English class, we can join you

17.  If it had not been raining so heavily, we wouldn’t have been wet through

18.  If today were Sunday, the students could go swimming

19.  If you are not careful, you can cut yourself with that knife

20.  He would not have a flu if he had not went out in the rain last night