3. Complete each of the following sentences in a meaningful way by choosing one of the options given:

1. I know Adela wishes she has / would have / could have another baby, but the doctor says it might not be possible.

2. If only I hadn’t got / wouldn’t have got / didn’t get so angry with Patrick last time we met.

3. I wish you would visit / would have visited / had visited your grandmother a little more often now that she’s so frail.

4. If only Grandpa would be / has been / were alive to see this.

5. Don’t you sometimes wish you and Dad would not get / did not get / had not got married when you were so young?

6. I really wish I would go / could go / went to Australia for my nephew’s wedding.

7. It’s high time you children start / will start / started helping your mother around the house a bit more.

8. I wish I did / would / will not live so far away from the rest of my family.

9. Suppose you have had / had had / would have had triplets instead of twins. Do you think you would have been able to manage?

4. There is an error in each sentence. Pock it out. Write the correct answer:

1. It's necessary that you should have taken a month’s holiday.

2. If only someone will believe me!

3. It’s time we get down to work.

4. He locked the paper in his desk lest nobody should see it.

5. I should tell you a long time ago how much you had always meant to me.

5. Transform the sentences into complex ones using the Subjunctive Mood:

1. The doctor advised me to give up smoking.

2. It’s time for the children to go to bed.

3. I had a violent headache yesterday; that is why I did not come to see you.

4. The publisher sent me a letter with the request to write a review of the book.

5. Isn’t it time to have dinner?

6. It was proposed to open the conference at 10 a.m.

7. I can’t go with you to the cinema. I am expecting my friend to come.

8. His only desire was to be allowed to visit his son.

9. It is high time to start putting our own house in order.

10. He kept the gate closed for the cows not to get into the garden.

6. Read each short text and the conditional sentences that follow it. Tick (√) the correct conditional sentences. (One or two may be correct in each case) Think about the meaning as well as the grammar:

1. Thanks for looking after the house while I’m away. The only difficulty might be the burglar alarm, which occasionally goes off for no reason. The police always follow up an alarm, but just tell them that it’s a bit temperamental.

A. If the alarm goes off, the police will come.

B. If the alarm were to go off, the police can come.

C. If the alarm should sound, the police will come.

2. The crash of the Air France Concorde has now been attributed to a piece of metal on the runway, apparently from a Continental Airlines DC 10 which had taken off minutes before. The metal caused one of Concorde’s tyres to burst, which in turn ruptured the fuel tank on the left-hand side of the plane.

A. If the runaway were swept after each take-off, the disaster might have been averted.

B. If the runaway had been swept after the DC 10 take-off, the disaster could have been averted.

C. If the runaway hadn’t been swept after the DC 10 take-off, the disaster might have been averted.

3. The government urges that all children and teenagers are vaccinated against meningitis C.

A. If your child had not yet been vaccinated, please make an appointment with the nurse.

B. If your child has not yet been vaccinated, please make an appointment with the nurse.

C. If your child was not yet vaccinated, please make an appointment with the nurse.

4. I haven’t seen the result, but Rusedski must have finished his second round match against Pioline by now.

A. If he gets through this one, he’ll be delighted.

B. If he’s got through this one, he’ll be delighted.

C. If he got through this one, he’d be delighted.

5. Try to engage the potential client in conversation as soon as possible, to make it more difficult for him to put the phone down.

A. If the client won’t engage, politely thank him for listening and hang up.

B. If the client doesn’t engage, politely thank him for listening and hang up.

C. If the client wouldn’t engage, you should thank him for listening and hang up.

6. Over ninety-five per cent of people who successfully complete our course find that they recover the course fees within a few months through income from having their work published.

A. Should you not recover the fees within a year of completing the course, we will give you a full refund.

B. Did you not recover the fees within a year of completing the course, we would give you a full refund.

C. If you hadn’t recovered the fees within a year of completing the course, we would give you a full refund.