Conditional Clauses Exercises with Answers for class 8 and worksheet with Solution from the book Elementary English Grammar for CBSE and ICSE students.
Complete the sentences
Exercise 22.1 Write the option which correctly completes the sentence. In some cases more than one or all might be correct :-
1. If it rains,
(i) the First Test Match will be cancelled.
(ii) the First Test Match would be cancelled.
(iii) the First Test Match ought to be cancelled.
2. When water freezes,
(i) it turns into ice.
(ii) it would turn into ice.
(iii) it should turns into ice.
3. If I have time,
(i) I shall go to the Book Fair.
(ii) I might go to the Book Fair.
(iii) I would to go the Book Fair.
4. If Hari meets Sameer,
(i) he must remind him to meet me.
(ii) remind him to meet me.
(iii) he ought to remind him to meet me.
5. If you will perform at my party,
(i) I will give you a big remuneration.
(ii) I must give you a big remuneration.
(iii) I might give you a big renumeration.
6. If I weren’t so busy,
(i) I would have gone to the exhibition.
(ii) I would go to the exhibition.
(iii0 I should visit the exhibition.
7. If I were you,
(i) I would never refuse Rohan’s offer.
(ii) I would never have refused Rohan’s offer.
(iii) I will never refuse Rohan’s offer.
8. If I were you,
(i) we may have forgive him.
(ii) we might have forgive him.
(iii) we would forgive him.
9. If he had admitted his mistake.
(i) I might buy a new car.
(ii) I shall buy a new car.
(iii) I would buy a new car.
10. If you want to keep fit,
(i) take exercise daily.
(ii) you should exercise daily.
(iii) you must take some exercise daily.
Answers:
1.If it rains,
(i) the First Test Match will be cancelled.
(For a realistic future possibility, use “will be.”)
2.When water freezes,
(i) it turns into ice.
(For scientific facts, use the present tense.)
3.If I have time,
(ii) I might go to the Book Fair.
(“Might” is correct for indicating possibility.)
4.If Hari meets Sameer,
(iii) he ought to remind him to meet me.
(“Ought to” is appropriate for suggesting a duty.)
5.If you will perform at my party,
(i) I will give you a big remuneration.
(For conditional agreements in the future, use “will.”)
6.If I weren’t so busy,
(ii) I would go to the exhibition.
(This is a second conditional sentence, imagining a present unreal situation.)
7.If I were you,
(i) I would never refuse Rohan’s offer.
(This is a hypothetical suggestion in the present or future.)
8.If I were you,
(iii) we would forgive him.
(This matches a hypothetical present situation.)
9.If he had admitted his mistake,
(iii) I would buy a new car.
(For third conditional structures, indicating a hypothetical past situation, use “would.”)
10.If you want to keep fit,
(ii) you should exercise daily.
(“Should” expresses advice.)
Use Conditional Clauses
Exercise 22.2 State what type of conditional clause is used in the following sentences (universal truth, likely or probable, unlikely or improbable, imaginary) :-
1. If you heat ice, it melts. ____________________________
2. If I win a lottery, I will buy a new house. ___________________
3. If I were a ghost, I will scare people. _______________________
4. If you had asked me to do it, I would have done it. ___________________
5. If I find anything wrong, I shall inform you. ____________________
Answers:
1. If you heat ice, it melts.
Universal Truth
(This expresses a general or scientific fact.)
2. If I win a lottery, I will buy a new house.
Likely or Probable
(This expresses a condition that is possible or likely to happen in the future.)
3. If I were a ghost, I would scare people.
Imaginary
(This expresses an unreal or hypothetical situation, imagining something that is not true.)
4. If you had asked me to do it, I would have done it.
Unlikely or Improbable
(This refers to a past condition that did not happen, so the result is impossible now.)
5. If I find anything wrong, I shall inform you.
Likely or Probable
(This expresses a condition that is possible or likely to happen in the future.)
Make ‘IF’ sentences
Exercise 22.3 Certain phrases are given in two boxes. Combine them to make an ‘if’ sentences :-
A | B |
1. not to park here | You/plans failed |
2. My parents agree | I/go abroad for studies. |
3. If/you satisfied | he/included in the team |
4. You/regulate diet | You/cured of Indigestion |
5. You/plans failed | You/blame us. |
Answers:
1. If you park here, you will be fined.
2. If my parents agree, I will go abroad for studies.
3. If you are satisfied, he will be included in the team.
4. If you regulate your diet, you will be cured of indigestion.
5. If your plans failed, you should not blame us.
had, should, unless, or were
Exercise 22.4 Remove if in the following sentences and use (had, should, unless, or were). Make the necessary changes :-
1. If I had not rung him up, he would not have come to my party.
Had _____________________________________________________________________________________________
2. If he does not satisfy you with this work, we will not employ him.
Unless ____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. If I met him tomorrow, I will inform him of your visit.
Should ___________________________________________________________________________________________
4. If you had worked hard you would not have been rejected today.
Had _______________________________________
5. If the patient feels pain, you should give him this injection.
Unless ____________________________________________________
6. If you go to the top of the buildings, you will see the fireworks. _______________________________
7. If I were the monitor, I would keep the class quiet. _____________________________________________
8. If poaching is not stopped, tigers will soon become extinct.
9. If there is not enough food, many animals will die. ______________________________________________
10. If I have the time, I shall go to the party. _______________________________________________________
Answers:
1. Had I not rung him up, he would not have come to my party.
2. Unless he satisfies you with his work, we will not employ him.
3. Should I meet him tomorrow, I will inform him of your visit.
4. Had you worked hard, you would not have been rejected today.
5. Unless the patient feels pain, you should not give him this injection.
6. Should you go to the top of the building, you will see the fireworks.
7. Were I the monitor, I would keep the class quiet.
8. Unless poaching is stopped, tigers will soon become extinct.
9. Unless there is enough food, many animals will die.
10. Should I have the time, I shall go to the party.