2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:
1. The government are talking of pulling the village down to make room for an airport
If they (start) doing it the village people (resist)?
2. When he left school he became a fisherman. His family didn't like it at all. They (be) much happier if
he (become) a greengrocer like his father.
3. They still say that if he (80) into the greengrocery business when he left school he (be) comfortably off
now instead of being poor.
4. But he says that if he (have) his life again he (make) the same choice.
5. So many parcels and no baskets! If I (know) that we were going to buy so much I (bring) a basket.
6. No one bathes here. The water is heavily polluted. If you (bathe) in it you (be) ill for a fortnight.
7. I can hear the speaker all right but I wish I could see him too.
If he (stand) on a barrel we all (see) him and that (be) much better.
8. Look at poor Tom trying to start his car by hand again! If I (be) Tom I (get) a new battery.
9. The only thing I haven't got is a balcony. If I (have) a balcony I (grow) plants in pots. Then my flat (be)
perfect!
3. Finish the sentences:
1. If buses and trains were free ....
2. If children were allowed to do exactly as they liked in school .....
3. I would have taken a photograph if.....
4. Your job sounds awful. If I were you ....
5. If I'd known that there was going to be an electricity strikel...
6. If the price of petrol goes up ....
7. You can camp in this field if ....