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Conditional Tenses - Exercise 3

Directions: In the blank below each sentence, write the correct form of the verb in parenthesis. You may add auxiliary verbs. When you are finished, click the "Check My Work" button at the bottom of the page to check your answers.

1. If you polish the silver today, it (look) nice for the party tomorrow.



2. If DaVinci were painting today, he (be) famous.



3. The car (be) clean now if you had washed it yesterday.



4. Your vocabulary (improve) in the future if you read a lot now.



5. If you had left earlier, you (arrive) on time.



6. We (have) plenty of space if we lived in that big house.



7. If you (sleep) more, you would have more energy.



8. If James (eat) all of his food, he would have felt satisfied by now.



9. We would have less strife in the world if people (be) kinder to each other.



10. If the gardeners plant that tree, it (bloom) next spring.



             

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