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If and modal verbs

achwak: Date d'inscription : 05/01/2010
Age : 32
Localisation : béjaia

Message n°1

If and modal verbs

par achwak Sam 13 Mar - 0:07

1- If + present; future.
a- If I work hard; I can pass my exam.
b- If he has money ; he may spend it.
c- If I find her address ; I must send her a letter.
2- If + simple past; conditional present.
a- If I worked hard ; I could pass my exam.
b- If he had money ; he might spend it.
c- If I found her address; I had to send her a letter.
3- If + past perfect; conditional past ( would have + past participle)
- can = to be able to .
- may = to be allowed to.
- must = to have to.
a- If I had worked hard , I would have been able to pass my exam.
b- If he had had money , he would have been allowed to spend it.
c- If I had found her address , I would have had to send her a letter.
Give the correct form of the verbs ( ):
-If it ( not rain , in present) ,we can go swimming tomorrow.
-If it didn't rain , we ( can go ) swimming .
- If it ( not rain, in past perfect) , we ( can go ) swimming.
- If my parents( to go , in present) shopping , I ( must ) look after my little sister.
- If my parents ( to go , in simple past) shopping , I ( must ) look after my little sister.
- If my parents (to go , in past pefect) shopping , I ( must ) look after my little sister.
- If we go to Canada , we ( may ) improve our English.
- We might improve our English , if we ( to go ) to Canada.
-We ( may ) improve our English, if we had gone to Canada.

Good luck

choubeila

choubeila: Date d'inscription : 07/03/2010

Message n°2

Re: If and modal verbs

par choubeila Sam 13 Mar - 0:24

Merci

pour cet exercice , si tu peux m'aidé avec des exercices concernant la voix passive in english If and modal verbs Icon_redface

.Tu sais notre prof a essayé d'expliqué la leçon des modal verbs mais j'ai rien compris If and modal verbs Icon_evil

, je vais faire un effort If and modal verbs Icon_twisted

.Ta méthode est simple merci. If and modal verbs Herz

choubeila

choubeila: Date d'inscription : 07/03/2010

Message n°3

Re: If and modal verbs

par choubeila Mer 17 Mar - 17:09

Merci Achwak, je me permet de demander encore, comment on utilise :if dans une phrase que ne comporte pas ce malheureux if.

achwak

achwak: Date d'inscription : 05/01/2010
Age : 32
Localisation : béjaia

Message n°4

Re: If and modal verbs

par achwak Ven 19 Mar - 5:33

When you rewrite sentences using if,you must:
1- Pay attention to the tenses of the verbs in the given sentence.
2-Use the right type of conditional.
3-Change the sign of the verbs:that is to say; when the verb is affirmative it becomes negative and when it is negative it becomes affirmative.
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a-When the verbs in the given sentences are in the present tenses, rewrite that sentencs, using type 2:
If + past simple ---Conditional present.
b- When the verbs in the given sentences are in the past tenses ; rewrite that sentence using type 3:
If + past perfect--- conditional perfect.
1--It is raining so the match will be put off.
-IF it was not raining the match would not be put off.
2-He saw the Eifel tower as he travelled to Paris.
He would not have seen the Eifel tower,if he hadn't travelled to paris.
-She does not work hard so she doesn't pass her exam.
-If she worked hard, she would pass her exam.
-As they didn't listen carefully, they didn't understand the lessons.
-They would have understood the lessons, if they had listened carefully.