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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9 - Starting out for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these conditional sentences from the texts. Then work in pairs to discuss the questions below.

Answer

  1. b She wasn’t doing it on her own, she was with others. c It was thanks to her friend that she got the job.
  2. a
  3. a: if-clause: past simple; result clause: would + infinitive; b and c: if-clause: past perfect (simple or continuous); result clause: would / might + perfect infinitive (have + past participle); d: if-clause: past simple; result clause: would + perfect infinitive (have + past participle)
  4. d She is in the army now. She went to Haiti in the past.
  5. c Uses might to show a possibility (not would)