Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.1 for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Stephanie Dimond-Bayir from Pearson Education

Question

Write a sentence with if for situations 1-6.

Answer

  1. If early travellers hadn’t invented boats, cross-continental travel wouldn’t have become possible.
  2. If Archduke Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated, World War I wouldn't have started.
  3. If people from Sumer hadn't needed permanent records, they wouldn't have invented writing.
  4. If William the Conqueror hadn't invaded England in 1066, the English language wouldn't have changed.
  5. If Charles Darwin hadn't travelled to South America, he wouldn't have developed the theory of evolution.
  6. If sailors on the Titanic had seen the iceberg, 1,595 people wouldn't have died.