LONGMAN ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE

14.1 Type 1 conditionals

14.1 С 'If + should' instead of 'if + present' [> LEG 14.8]

Study:

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lf+ should, instead of if+ present, makes the condition more doubtful or very polite:

If I should see him, I'll ask him to ring you. (= If I see him, I'll ask him to ring you.)

Write:

14.1D

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Rewrite these sentences using should in the //-clause.

1 If you see him, please give him this message. If.

2 If she asks you, please don't tell her anything

3 If he phones, please say I'm out

4 If the temperature falls, turn up the heating

5 If you receive a letter, let me know

6 If you go out, get me a paper

Imperative + 'and/or' + clause: 'Fail to pay and ...' [> LEG 14.9]

We can use the imperative in place of an /У-clause to comment, threaten, request, etc.

1 We follow the imperative with and in place of an /У-clause in the affirmative:

if you fail to pay, they'll cut off the electricity.

Fail to pay and they'll cut off the electricity.

2 We follow the imperative with or in place of an /Y-clause in the negative:

If you don't stop borrowing money, you'll be in trouble. —•

Stop borrowing money, or you'll be in trouble.

Write: Change these sentences to begin with an imperative.

1 If you ask me nicely, I'll mend it for you. h^w.rw^.&tá

2 If you crash my car, I'll never forgive you

3 If you work late tonight, I'll pay you well

4 If you don't hurry, you'll be late

5 If you don't take a taxi, you'll miss your train

6 If you don't stop shouting, I'll slap you

14.1E Context

Write: Put in the missing verb forms.

AN URGENT CASE

The family party was in full swing when the phone rang. Dr Craig answered it. He

listened carefully for a moment, then said, 'I'll come right away.' 'Do you have to go

out?' his wife asked. 'If it^1 fd. an urgent case, I have to go,' Dr Craig

answered. 'If I (should)^2 late, please don't wait up for me.' Dr Craig

drove into the night. If I don't hurry, he thought, I (might)^3 too late.

The thought made him drive faster. After driving for an hour, he arrived at a house.

All the lights were on. If all the family is up, the doctor thought, the situation (must)

(^4) serious. A woman opened the front door immediately. 'Thank God
you've come, doctor,' she cried. 'It's my daughter.' A sleepy child of about six
appeared in a nightdress. 'I told her,' her mother said, '"(go)^5 to bed,
or I'll fetch the doctor". See,' she shouted at the child. 'I've done it. Here's the
Here's the doctor! doctor!'