I. In the sentences below identify which are time and which are conditional links.
1 Providing you're back by eight o'clock you can go to the airport to welcome the group.
2 Whether the plane's late or not, they'11 get a terrific welcome.
3 Some of the fans will be pretty impatient by the time the piane lands.
41'm not going to miss the chance of seeing them however late they are.
5 Here they are! Don't worry -1*11 give you your camera back immediately I've taken a photo.
6 I' m going to get their autographs. It will be the first time I've spoken to a pop star.
II. Choose the correct form for each verb in brackets. Where there is no verb, give the correct auxiliary such as do or have.
\urge) me to lend him money for a business
1 Denis 1.5.J
him a penny
i$ (flotmpj/wilf Mm-
2 Marylin......'T......... (gó) to the States on business in a.few days. I am told that while
she.........1.* (be) ąway, Georgina's brother .W(\i!...j£,..!^^(l^p) an eye on her firm
JLm V A ^ A ^ A W AA A * A A ^ f “ ' “ w-— j w ^ g --- - /
(trust) him implicitly. As long as she (not/be) away for too long, it should
for her. He Mp.. (help) Marylin with her business before, and she
be a satisfactory arrangement.
e^aminations in two months' time. Provided he (pass) them, he
W....^tó@ecialise) in psychiatry, which ... .(.Wll(takef another two years’ study at least. So he (not/be) ready to practise fuli time until he
3 My son V» ^Idicine for six years and., /&?£!£(
examinatkm$ in two months' time. Provided 1
---------- -- - (nqt/|pe) .
....1$........(be) nearly thirty. By then heVfU!.XT......(study) for a total of eight or nine years
4 ’§o lopg as political leaders ................... (keep) their heads a third world war
................r(not/be) inevitable.'
'Whether they ................... (keep) their heads or not, they ........... (find) it
almost impossible to prevent world war unless they (succeed) in
abolishing the intemational arms trade.'
'My prediction is that providing a. nuclear holocaust ................(nof/occur) by the
end of the century, mankind ......... '(pass) the danger point.'
'.Yo.u're too £omplacent. Even if your prediction .............. (prove) correct, there
..............'(dlways/be) a risk of man destroying himself.'
5 'I................<come) with you only if you .................(drive) morę slowly than you
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usually .....__.......(_).'
'I promise I..............(_). Jump in! You can put the handbrake on immediately
you ............. (think) I--------(go) too fast.'
(taken from Gethin 1990: 23-25)