Fill in the blanks.
1. If you had practiced every day, you …………………………
In the third conditional, we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.
2. If I had …………………………. I could buy a car.
When enough is used as an adjective it goes before the noun it modifies.
3. He was …………………………… to lend me 100 dollars.
When enough is used as an adverb, it goes after the adjective or adverb modified by it.
4. Don’t come tomorrow. I would rather you ………………………….. on Sunday.
After would rather we use a past tense with a present or future meaning.
5. Nothing happened, …………………………..?
In question tags, we use it to refer to nothing.
6. …………………………… the film, I don’t want to read the book.
When we separate the clauses we get: I have seen the film. I don’t want to read the book. We can combine them using having seen.
7. Everything is all right, …………………………?
In question tags we use it to refer to everything.
8. You had better …………………………. saying thank-you for things.
We use infinitive without to after ‘had better’.
9. When we were kids, my uncle ……………………………. us out on his bike all round the countryside.
Would and used to can both be used to talk about habitual behaviour in the past.
10. You were foolish to try climbing up there. You ……………………………. yourself.
Could have + past participle can be used to say that something was possible but did not happen.
11. I am not accustomed to ………………………… personal information to strangers.
After accustomed to we can use an -ing from or an infinitive without much difference of meaning.
12. I slowly began ……………………………. what she was going through.
The stative verb understand is usually used in the infinitive form.
Answers
1. If you had practiced every day, you would have won.
2. If I had enough money I could buy a car.
3. He was generous enough to lend me 100 dollars.
4. Don’t come tomorrow. I would rather you came on Sunday.
5. Nothing happened, did it?
6. Having seen the film, I don’t want to read the book.
7. Everything is all right, isn’t it?
8. You had better start saying thank-you for things.
9. When we were kids, my uncle would take / used to take us out on his bike all round the countryside.
10. You were foolish to try climbing up there. You could have killed yourself.
11. I am not accustomed to give / giving personal information to strangers.
12. I slowly began to understand what she was going through.
