Cover of the textbook On Screen B1+/B2 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6c - Grammar in use for the textbook On Screen B1+/B2 - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

  1. Read the joke. What tenses are used after if? Complete the table using sentences from the text.
  2. Which type refers to?

Answer

a)

Tenses used after if:

  • present simple → If you aren’t back by 9:00 you'll be in trouble. / I won’t get angry if you break your promise, too!
  • past simple → If you weren’t always late, I wouldn’t mind so much.
  • past perfect → If it hadn’t stopped, I would have been on time.

b)

  • an unlikely situation in the present → Type 2
  • a real or probable situation in the present / future → Type 1
  • an imaginary situation contrary to facts in the past → Type 3
  • a general truth → Type 0