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Answer — Exercise 1

6c - Grammar in use·On Screen B1+/B2 - Student's Book

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
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