well, so he won’t go to the swimming pool. 10. I can’t ^

remember his address, so I shan’t send him the invitation. ;

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Exercise 152. Choose the right form of the verb from the ^: brackets. Explain your choice.

1. What would you do if you ... sick (get/gets/got/have

got)? 2. If we ... some information we should already have

given it to the police {have/has/had/have had). 3. If

somebody......things away at least one day a week, you

soon wouldn’t be able to move in this small house (does

not tidy/do not tidy/did’t not tidy/has not tidied). 4. We

shouldn’t even have known she was going if I.........her

packing her clothes (do not find/did not find/has not found/

had not found). 5. Mrs.Sommerheyes does not remember

me. Even if she ... it wouldn’t matter, would it (do/does/

did/has done/had done)? 6. If Eve Carpenter ... this

photograph of herself, she would tear in pieces quickly

(see/sees/saw/has seen/had seen). 7. If Guy ... a man, he’d ■

stop them. He wouldn’t let them prosecute me (is/are/was/

were/ had been/has ]?een). 8. If he...... with them, he

wouldn’t have got into the trouble. He would be alive (go/

goes/went/has gone/had gone). 9. “I can’t think why you

don’t arrest Dr.Rendell”, said Mrs. Oliver. “I would, if I

... the Head of Scotland Yard” (am/is/are/was/were/had

been). 10. If he.........every penny all his life, he wouldn’t :

be the owner of the fine ship (do not save/does not save/ -

did not save/ has not saved/had not saved). 11. If a boat

......away, he’d be in charge of it, and he’d be sent because ;

he was the best man for the job (is sent/are sent/was sent/ ]

were sent/has been sent/had been sent). 12. “What did he j

want, I wonder?” “He wanted to apologize. He would have

done so if you.........here (isn’t/aren't/wasn’t/weren’t/ .

hasn’t been/hadn’t been).” 13. If she......like a decent

modest young woman none of this would have happened

(behaves/behaved/have behaved/has behaved/had <

behaved).14. If I ... you, I’d go home for a few days (be/

am/was/were),    j

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Exercise 153. Choose the right form of the verb from the brackets. Explain your choice.

1. We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at '

twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we......less wise at

fifty {will be/have been/would be/had been). 2. “If 1 were you, I......no attention to the things”, Hattie says (shall i

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