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ALL CONDITIONALS – MIXED

CONDITIONALS, ALTERNATIVES TO ‘IF’,
INVERSION
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conditionals – mixed conditionals, alternatives to ‘if’,
inversion » Page 2

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Exercises: 1 2 3

All conditionals –
mixed conditionals,
alternatives to if,
inversion

Exercise 2

Choose the correct option/s for each

gap below.

You have completed this test.

Correct answers: 7/10.

Your score is 70%.

Check your answers:

1 If I were you, I ______ anything.

Choose TWO correct options

a. hadn't said

b. wouldn't say

c. wouldn't be said

d. wouldn't have said

➪ If I were you, I wouldn't

say anything = second
conditional
➪ If I were you, I wouldn't have
said anything = mixed
conditional

2 If I'd known, I ______ you. 

Choose TWO correct options

a. might have helped

b. would help
c. might help

d. would have helped

➪ This is a third conditional

sentence.
➪ This is a third
conditional sentence; we
use would have/could
have/might have + past
participle in the main clause.

3 If we had planned this better,

we ______ in so much trouble now.

a. wouldn't have been

b. hadn't been

c. wouldn't be

d. weren't

➪ This is a mixed conditional

sentence: If we had planned this
better (third conditional), we
wouldn't be (second
conditional) in so much trouble
now.

4 ______ your job, you will need

enough money to sustain yourself

for a few months. 

Choose TWO correct options

a. If you lose

b. Whether you lose

c. Should you lose

d. Had you lose

➪ This is a first conditional

sentence.
➪  In first conditional sentences
it’s possible to use should at the
beginning of the sentence
instead of if. This form is formal
and it’s quite common with an
imperative form in the main
clause.

5 We are going to go ahead

with the plan, ______ . 

Choose TWO correct options

a. whether or not they

like it

b. even if they won't like it

c. provided that they will like
it

d. whether they like it or

not

➪ This is a first conditional

sentence.
➪  We use whether or not when
there are two alternatives and
we want to say that something
will happen or will be true in any
of those two alternatives.

6 This might never have

happened ______  me earlier. 

Choose TWO correct options

a. if you would have

told

b. had you told

c. if you had told

d. if you told

➪ This is a third conditional

sentence.
➪ In third
conditional sentences, we can
invert the auxiliary verb had and
leave if out. Had we arrived = 'If
we had arrived.'

7 If he ______ out who did it, he

would kill them.

a. found

b. would find
c. had found
d. would have found

➪ This is a second conditional

sentence; we use past (simple or
continuous) in the if clause.

8 You'll miss the train ______ a

taxi.   Choose TWO correct options

a. in case you take

b. even if you take

c. provided that you take

d. whether or not you

take

➪ This is a first
conditional sentence; we
use present (simple, continuous,
perfect) in the if clause.
➪  We use whether or not when
there are two alternatives and
we want to say that something
will happen or will be true in any
of those two alternatives.
Whether or not you take a taxi=
'if you take a taxi and if you don't
take a taxi.'
➪  We also use even if to mean
‘whether or not’ (for emphasis).

9 If I had known about your

plans earlier, I ______ you. 

Choose TWO correct options

a. might have warned

b. might warn
c. would warn

d. would have
warned

➪ This is a third
conditional sentence; we
use would have/could
have/might have + past
participle in the main clause.

10 ______ you out, would you

have asked her out?   

Choose TWO correct options

a. Supposing she hadn't

asked

b. If she hadn't asked

c. Provided that she

wouldn't have asked

d. If she wouldn't have

asked

➪ This is a third
conditional sentence; we
normally use past perfect in the
if clause, and would
have/could have/might have +
past participle in the main
clause.
➪ We can
use suppose or supposing at
the beginning of a sentence to
make someone imagine a
situation. It means ‘what would
happen if’, or simply ‘if’
(imagining a situation).

Exercises: 1 2 3

Related tests:

Mixed conditionals – If I were

you, I wouldn’t have done it

Second and third

conditionals – unreal
conditionals

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