Вправа 3. Join parts of the sentences to form second conditionals. 1) How could you know that you would fall into the cellar…
2) If the police shut the robber up too soon…
3) They couldn’t even hear in the town …
4) If the author were to give an account of it …
5) If the time scale was lengthened …
6) If the consultative process were to be concluded more successfully …
7) If it were impossible to adopt the draft resolutions by consensus …
8) We could hide in a big barn …
8) The dog would start to howl …
9) Even if the whole lady world protested, …
a) if we fired the cannon here.
b) they would all the same receive an overwhelming majority of all votes.
c) the reader would hardly believe it.
d) Mark wouldn’t stop watching football.
e) if we felt any danger.
f) if you didn’t do this on purpose?
g) the effect would be that much more neutrons would decay into protons.
h) as if it were covered with bees
i) they would deprive of themselves getting more further evidence against him.
j) much more had to be done
To form the second conditional, we need to combine the two parts of the sentence. In this case, we have "How could you know" as the first part and "that you would fall into the cellar if we felt any danger" as the second part. To combine them, we can say: "How could you know that you would fall into the cellar if we felt any danger?"
2) If the police shut the robber up too soon, Mark wouldn't stop watching football.
In this sentence, the first part is "If the police shut the robber up too soon" and the second part is "Mark wouldn't stop watching football." To combine them, we say: "If the police shut the robber up too soon, Mark wouldn't stop watching football."
3) They couldn’t even hear in the town if you didn't do this on purpose?
The first part of this sentence is "They couldn’t even hear in the town" and the second part is "if you didn't do this on purpose?" To combine them, we say: "They couldn’t even hear in the town if you didn't do this on purpose?"
4) If the author were to give an account of it, the reader would hardly believe it.
In this sentence, the first part is "If the author were to give an account of it" and the second part is "the reader would hardly believe it." To combine them, we say: "If the author were to give an account of it, the reader would hardly believe it."
5) If the time scale was lengthened, the effect would be that much more neutrons would decay into protons.
The first part of this sentence is "If the time scale was lengthened" and the second part is "the effect would be that much more neutrons would decay into protons." To combine them, we say: "If the time scale was lengthened, the effect would be that much more neutrons would decay into protons."
6) If the consultative process were to be concluded more successfully, much more had to be done.
In this sentence, the first part is "If the consultative process were to be concluded more successfully" and the second part is "much more had to be done." To combine them, we say: "If the consultative process were to be concluded more successfully, much more had to be done."
7) If it were impossible to adopt the draft resolutions by consensus, they would all the same receive an overwhelming majority of all votes.
The first part of this sentence is "If it were impossible to adopt the draft resolutions by consensus" and the second part is "they would all the same receive an overwhelming majority of all votes." To combine them, we say: "If it were impossible to adopt the draft resolutions by consensus, they would all the same receive an overwhelming majority of all votes."
8) We could hide in a big barn if we fired the cannon here.
The first part of this sentence is "We could hide in a big barn" and the second part is "if we fired the cannon here." To combine them, we say: "We could hide in a big barn if we fired the cannon here."
9) The dog would start to howl even if the whole lady world protested.
The first part of this sentence is "The dog would start to howl" and the second part is "even if the whole lady world protested." To combine them, we say: "The dog would start to howl even if the whole lady world protested."
10) They would deprive of themselves getting more further evidence against him if they would all the same receive an overwhelming majority of all votes.
The first part of this sentence is "They would deprive of themselves getting more further evidence against him" and the second part is "if they would all the same receive an overwhelming majority of all votes." To combine them correctly, we need to make some modifications. The correct combined sentence would be: "They would deprive themselves of getting further evidence against him if they were to receive an overwhelming majority of all votes."
11) Much more had to be done if the consultative process were to be concluded more successfully.
The first part of this sentence is "Much more had to be done" and the second part is "if the consultative process were to be concluded more successfully." To combine them, we simply say: "Much more had to be done if the consultative process were to be concluded more successfully."