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Advanced Communication Skills

Notes F. Conditional Sentences Type II.
Write conditional sentences type III based on the given facts.
We don't have any wood, so we can't light a fire. If we had some wood, we could light a
fire.
1- Since she doesn't love him, she won't marry him.
2- Our teacher explains things clearly, so we understand his lessons.
3- As I haven't a watch, I can't tell you the time.

4- Britain doesn't export enough, so she has a constant balance of payments problem.
5- Since I know the meaning of the word, I don't have to look it up.
6- This exercise is easy, so everyone will get the correct answers.
7- I know the answer so I can tell you.

8- We haven't any matches so we can't light the fire.
G. Conditional Sentences Type III: Complete the sentences, following one of the patterns of
conditional sentences type III.

1- I would have enjoyed the party much more if...
2- It... if the sea hadn't been so rough.
3- Would you have been able to come next Tuesday if...?
4- If you had taken my advice...

5- If I had realized that you were really serious in what you said,...
6- If it hadn't been for the fact that his father has influence...
7- If he were to have told me the truth in the first place...
8- Would you have lent him the money if...?

9- What difference would it have made, even if...?
10- If the fire brigade had arrived but a quarter of an hour earlier,...
11- I'm sure she wouldn't have married him if...
12- If..., we would have left without them.

H. Conditional Sentences Type III
Change the following sentences into conditionals type III like in the example:
He didn't know his wife was going to be sitting at the next table, and so he took his
secretary to the Golden Tower restaurant =
If he had known his wife was going to be sitting at the next table, he wouldn't have taken
his secretary to the Golden Tower restaurant.

1- Bob didn't hear about it in time, and so he didn't join Oliver's expedition to
Afghanistan.
2- She changed her nationality on marriage, and so he didn't need to have her visa
extended.
3- The Hotchkisses ran out of marmalade, and so they had apricot jam this morning.

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