Situations and dialogues of your own

If ifs and ans were pots and pans.

1. If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

2. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

3. If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.

Exercise 10 Topics for discussion and essay composition in which conditional clauses should be widely used.

Speak on the prospects of economic and social development of the Soviet Union if the country didn’t have to strengthen its defence capability.

1. What dialogue between a Soviet and American austranauts could take place at an International Space Research and Exploitation Conference?

2. What are the problems young people in the capitalist countries would not face if their governments paid more attention to social needs?

Check yourself

1. What is modality?

2. What is mood?

3. Give the forms of the four oblique moods?

4. In which way are the actions referred to by different to by different oblique moods forms represented?

5. What content do the sentences containing different oblique moods express?

6. What tense forms of the verbs are used in real conditional sentences?

(B) In sentences of unreal condition referring to the past PERFECT forms of Subjunctive II (Past Subjunctive) and Subjunctive III (Conditional Mood) are used.