Table 8

Conditional clause	Main clause
If I were to do sth You (were to deliver a report) Etc.	I should do sth (I should choose this topic) (What topic would you choose?)

Exercise 1 Answer the questions.

1.What topic would you choose if you were to write your graduation thesis in grammar?

2.Supposing you were a guide of a group of tourists from English, what places about the university would you take them to?

3.What books would you recommend to read if you were to lecture on the history of the city?

4.If you were to organize a meeting of the English Speaking Club what guests would you invite, what problem would you choose for discussion, etc.?

5.What places of interest would you like to see if you were to visit England?

Exercise 3 Complete the following sentences, using the pattern “if sb were to do sth”

1.There simply wouldn’t be enough food to go round…

2.My shoes would be ruined if…

3.What would you say if…

4.Would you really mind if…

5.I’m perfectly sure he wouldn’t say a word if…

6.I wonder what they would think if…

7.He would be the first to object if…

8.I don’t think the children would really mind if…

9.And what should I do if…

10.I shouldn’t be in the least astonished if…

11.What would you buy if…

12.Do you think they would notice if…

To suggest that the “sth that may happen is itself dependent on chance or some other unpredictable factor”, use the present tense of the Suppositional mood (Subjunctive IV) in the following patterns: