What do you expect a teacher to do if you make a mistake?

4. How people dress in Great British if they work in an office?

Exercise 3. Ask similar questions and answer them, use the following:

To catch (a) cold, to work hard, to drive a car, to become slim, to improve one’s memory, to get wrong.

Exercise 4. Combine each pair of simple sentences into one complex sentence with an adverbial clause of condition. Make other changes if necessary.

Example Anne may have free time. She will go to the folk concert then.

If Anne has free time, she will go to the concert.

1. The film may be boring. We’ll go home then.
2. Jane may have to wait for her husband. She will try to solve the crossword then.
3. John may fly to New York on Saturday. We will postpone the party then.
4. Oscar may book a room in that hotel. He won’t trouble you then.
5. The hotel may be full. We’ll have to go to another hotel then.
6. Mrs. Cramer may need money. She’ll go to the bank then.
7. We may not hear from him today. We’ll send him the telegram then.
8. It may stop raining. We’ll go through the park then.
9. Helen may be out. Her mother will take the message then.
10. It may rain. The children won’t go to the park then.
11. Anne may meet some friends tomorrow evening. She won’t come to our party then.

Exercise 5. Report these statements in indirect speech. Make all necessary changes as shown in the example.

Example I’ll take a nap, if I feel tied. ‘Aunt Agatha said…

Aunt Agatha said that she would take a nap if she felt fired.

1. ‘We’ll have a picnic, if it doesn’t rain. ‘Pamela said…
2. ‘If our car breaks down, we’ll miss the train. ‘Mrs. Palmer said…
3. ‘I’ll go to the movies, if I do not have to work’, John told us.
4. ‘I’ll visit the Nelsons, if they invite me.’ Jane…
5. ‘Stephen will be on time, if he takes a taxi. ‘Madge…
6. ‘I’ll go to New York, if it doesn’t cost to much.’ Helen…
7. ‘I won’t like the film, if it is a detective story.’ Sarah…
8. ‘He won’t answer the phone, if he is busy.’ Anne told me…
9. ‘Sam will lend you the camera, if he doesn’t need it on Saturday. ‘Bill told us…
10. ‘Barbara won’t be happy, if you don’t come.’ Sheila…
11. ‘I’ll miss my bus, if I stay longer.’ Jane…
12. ‘The secretary will call him up, if he doesn’t come to the office.’ Mr. Jones

told us…

Exercise 6. Explain the use of tenses; specify the time reference of the sentences. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1. The only way we’ll get peace in the world is if we come and talk to the east.

1. If I begin with the student performance it is because I always experience a special kind of exhilaration when I see the eight to ten year old boys on the stage of the Opera House moving with skill and intense concentration in the traditional British sword dances.
2. If the senior section of the programme was less impressive than in other years, it was, I believe that a large proposition of the graduating students had already joined the two Royal companies.
3. If you don’t mind my saying so, your attitude ought to be one of “better late than never”.

Exercise 7. Recollect the situations in which the following ser expressions were used. Use them in short situations of your own.

1. if you don’t mind my saying so

2. if ever a man did

3. if there ever was a lucky man, it’s

4. if that’s the case

5. if I begin with…, its’ because

6. if something is/was …, it is/was that…

Exercise 8. Memorize the following proverbs. Explain their meaning and give Russian/Ukrainian equivalents to them.

1. If it rains at eleven, it will last till seven.
2. If an ass brays you, you don’t bray him.
3. If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
4. If we can’t as we would, we must do as we can.
5. If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.
6. If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you can.
7. If you laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper.
8. If you want a thing done, do it yourself.
9. If the cap fits, wear it.
10. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
11. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go tj the mountain.
12. If you pay not the servant his wages, he will pay himself.
13. If you run after two hares, you’ll catch none.
14. If you sell the cow, you will sell her milk too.

III. COMPLEX SENTENCES WITH CLAUSES OF UNREAL CONDITION

Forms of the Past Subjunctive (Subjunctive II) are used in conditional (if) clauses, and in the main clauses forms of Conditional Mood (Subjunctive Mood (Subjunctive III) are found.

(A) in sentences referring to present and future or to no particular time NON-PERFECT forms are used.