CONDITIONALS/WISHES

Put the verb in brackets into the correct form:

1. If he (run)…………..all the way, he (get)……………...there quite quickly (but I don’t suppose
he will run all the way).
2. If I (know)………………..of your arrival, I (meet)……………….you, but I didn’t know.
3. If you (do)…………… as I (tell)………………...you, you (succeed)…………………….
4. I’m sure she (do)……………….well if she (go)……………….. to university.
5. I (come)…………………….yesterday if I (have) …………………...nothing to do.
6. If you (be)…………………..at school, I (give)…………………...it to you.
7. I warn you: if you (eat)……………….another cake, you (be)……………..sick.
8. If you (be)…………...here, I (show)………………...you my new books, but you are in Italy.
9. If I ever (make)…………………...any plans, my husband always (throw)………….. cold water
on them.
10. If I (be)……………….you, I (plant)…………………...tomatoes there.
11. Just imagine: if we (have)………………….a helicopter, we (can)……………….get there
quite quickly.
12. I (give)…………you her address if I (know)…………….it, but I don’t.
13. If you (not like)……………..your job, why you (not quit)………………...it?
14. He says that the neighbours always (complain)…………….., but if he (insist)…………….
on burning rubber tyres in his garden, what (can)……………….. he expect?
15. If he (take)…………….. my advice then, he (be)……………….a rich man now.
16. If I (be)……………….you, I (tell)…………………..him the truth.
17. Unless the floods (go down)……………………, we (not be able)……………….to use the car
tomorrow.
18. If the first clock ( be)……………………..invented by someone south of the Equator,
clock hands (go)…………………...the other way.
19. The dog (not attack)………………..you if you (sit)………………….quiet.
20. Unless you (wear)……………….boots, you (get)…………….bitten by snakes.
21. Why he (ask)………………. if he (know) …………………….already?
22. If you (leave)…………………..that wasp alone, it ( not sting) ……………….you, but you just
couldn’t.
23. If I (know)…………………..you needed to borrow the car yesterday, I (lend)………………
to you.
24. If they (not be)………………….awake all last night, they ( not be)………………..tired now.
25. If you (be)…………….allergic to animals, why you (want)…………… a pet?
26. If it ( not be)………………..for your encouragement, she ( not cope)……………….with that
situation.
27. If Jack (join) ………………….the team, I’m leaving.
28. If I (know)…………………...you were coming. I (meet)………………….. you at the airport.
29. If she (like)…………………..art as she doesn’t, she (go)…………………..to the gallery with
you last week.
30. If she (be)………….. here, she (know)………………..what to do.
31. I (knit)………………..another sweater if I (have) ……………….more wool, but I don’t.
32. If it (not be)……………. for my father, I (never start)…………………...learning foreign
languages when I was a little girl.
33. The performance was dragging on. If it (be)…………………...shorter, we (enjoy)……………..
……… it a lot more.
34. He always works so hard. If he ( go on)……………………….like this, he (kill)…………….
himself.
35. Thank God we met Peter. If he ( not give)…………………….us directions, we never (find)
that house.