conditional clauses Flashcards
1.After you will return (a)/ from New Delhi (b)/ I will meet you. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC LDC 2011]
1.(a) A real conditional is usually in the present simple tense. Therefore, ‘will return’ should be ‘return’.
2.Unless you do not meet (a)/ all the requirements (b)/ your application will be rejected (c)/ No error (d) [SSC CGL-II SSC 2010]
2.(a) Unless means if not. Therefore, ‘you do not meet’ should be ‘you meet’.
3.If I would know (a)/ what you wanted (b)/ I would help you. (c)/ No error (d)
3.(a) An unreal or hypothetical condition is in the past simple. Therefore, ‘If I would know’ should be ‘If I know’.
4.Unless (a)/ you will study hard (b)/ you can’t pass. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC Data Entry Operator 2010]
4.(b) A real or factual conditional is in the present simple. Therefore ‘you will study hard’ should be ‘you study hard’.
5.I would appreciate if readers (a)/ would write to me (b)/ about how they meditate. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC Tax Assistant 2009]
5.(b) A hypothetical conditional should be in the past simple tense. Therefore, ‘would write to me’ should be ‘wrote to me’.
6.John would have told (a)/ you the truth (b)/ if you had asked him. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC Tax Assistant 2004]
6.(d) The sentence contains no error.
7.Unless you receive the money order (a)/ you will not be able (b)/ to pay your rent. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC MTS 2015]
7.(d) ‘Until’ expresses time and unless expresses a condition. ‘Unless’should be ‘until’.
8.If I would have realised (a)/ what a bad shape our library is in (b)/ I would have done something, to arrest the deterioration. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC CGL PT 2014]
8.(a) An unreal conditional expressing possibility, requires the past perfect tense. ‘If I would have realized’ should be ‘If I had realized’.
9.If the bus had not (a)/ broken down (b)/ we will be at home now. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC Stenographer 2014]
9.(c) See explanatory note No. 6.
10.I will go out (a)/ when you (b)/ will come home. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC MT 2013]
10.(c) A real conditional should be in the present simple ‘will come home’. should be ‘come home’.
11.The train will not start (a)/ until the guard (b)/ will blow the whistle. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC MT 2013]
11.(c) A real conditional introduced by ‘until’ is in the present simple. ‘Will blow the whistle’ should be ‘blows the whistle’.
12.Unless he apologises (a)/ he should not be (b)/ allowed to stay with us. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC LDC 2013]
12.(b) The main clause requires the future simple, ‘he should not be’ should be ‘he will not be’.
13.When I shall see him (a)/ I shall (b)/ tell him. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC FCI 2012]
13.(a) See explanatory note 1. ‘Shall see’ should be ‘see’.
14.If you had invited me (a)/ I would attend (b)/ your marriage. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC CPO (Main) 2012]
14.(b) ‘Would attend’ should be ‘would have attended.’
15.Had he come to the office that day (a)/ he would know that (b)/ he was about to be transferred on promotion to the Regional office. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC CPO Main 2012]
15.(b) The main clause requires ‘would have + V3.’
16.If her grandfather (a)/ would have lived three more days (b)/ he would have been 100 years old. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC LDC 2012]
16.(b) An unreal conditional expressing impossibility is in the past perfect. ‘would have lived’ should be ‘had lived’.
17.If he had walked (a)/ fast enough (b)/ he will get the bus. (c)/ No error (d) [SSC LDC 2012]
17.(c) ‘he will get the bus’ should be ‘he would have got the bus’.
18.If you will work hard (a)/ you will (b)/ always succeed. (c)/ No error (d) [NDA 2013 (I)]
18.(a) A real conditional should be in the present simple. ‘If you will work hard’ should be ‘if you work hard’.
19.If the police would have worked (a)/ in time (b)/ the riot would not have occurred. (c)/ No error (d) [NDA 2012 (a)]
19.(a) An unreal conditional expressing impossibility requires the past perfect tense. ‘If the police would have worked’ should be ‘If the police had worked’.
