Conditionals: real & imagined situations worksheet
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Name: ____________________ Date: ____________________
If it rains tomorrow, we ___ inside.
will stay / would stay / would have stayed
My answer: ________________________________________
If I had a quieter room now, I ___ better.
will study / would study / would have studied
My answer: ________________________________________
If she had left earlier yesterday, she ___ the bus.
catches / would catch / would have caught
My answer: ________________________________________
If you heat ice enough, it ___.
melts / would melt / had melted
My answer: ________________________________________
I would join the club if I ___ more free time.
have / had / will have
My answer: ________________________________________
If water reaches 100°C at standard atmospheric pressure, it ___.
had boiled / boils / would boil
My answer: ________________________________________
If it rains tomorrow, we ___ indoors.
will stay / would have stayed / had stayed
My answer: ________________________________________
If I had more free time, I ___ a language.
will learned / had learned / would learn
My answer: ________________________________________
If she had left earlier, she ___ the bus.
would catch yesterday / would have caught / will catch
My answer: ________________________________________
Choose the standard first conditional.
If you study, you will improve. / If you will study, you improve yesterday. / If you studied, you will have improve.
My answer: ________________________________________
Answer key & explanations
- will stay — A possible future condition uses present tense after if and will in the result.
- would study — This imagines a different present situation.
- would have caught — The condition imagines changing a completed past event.
- melts — A general relationship can use present tense in both clauses.
- had — Would join signals an imagined present condition.
- boils — The zero conditional uses present forms to state a general relationship under the stated conditions.
- will stay — The first conditional describes a real future possibility: if plus present, then will plus base verb.
- would learn — The second conditional uses past form plus would for an imagined present situation.
- would have caught — The third conditional imagines a different past using had plus participle and would have plus participle.
- If you study, you will improve. — For this future condition, use present simple after if and will plus the base verb in the result.
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- Connect a condition with its result
- Distinguish real and imagined situations
- Choose a tense pattern for your meaning