Showing relationships Between Ideas②
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Exercise 17: Make sentences from the given possibilities. Use if.
1. It may be cold tomorrow.
→If it’s cold tomorrow, I’m going to stay home.
→If it’s cold tomorrow, let’s go skating.
→If it’s cold tomorrow, you should wear wool sweater.
→We can’t go on a picnic if it’s cold tomorrow.
2. Maybe it will be hot tomorrow.
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3. Robert will probably study for the test.
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4. Maybe you will have some free time tomorrow.
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5. The teacher may be absent tomorrow.
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6. Maybe you won’t do your homework tonight.
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7. Maybe you will lock yourself out of your apartment.
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8. Maybe the sun will be shining when you get up tomorrow morning.
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Exercise 18: Use the given information to complete the sentences.
1. Usually people need to graduate from school to get a good job. But it’s different fro
Ed. Maybe Ed will graduate from school, and maybe he won’t. It doesn’t matter
because he has a good job waiting for him in his father’s business.
a. Ed will get a good job whether or not he graduates.
b. Ed will get a good job even if he doesn’t graduates.
2. Sam’s uncle tells a lot of jokes.
not. It doesn’t matter.
Sometimes they’re funny, and sometimes they’re
a. Sam laughs at the jokes whether
b. Sam laughs at the jokes even if
or not.
.
3. Maybe you are finished with the exam, and maybe you’re not.
It doesn’t matter.
The time is up.
a. You have to hand in your examination paper whether
b. You have to hand in your examination paper even if
4. It might snow, or it might not.
doesn’t matter.
or not.
.
We don’t want to go camping in the snow, but it
a. We’re going to go camping in the mountains whether
b. We’re going to go camping in the mountains even if
or not.
.
5. Max’s family doesn’t have enough money to send him to college. He would like to
get a scholarship, but it doesn’t matter because he’s saved some money to go to
school and has a part-time job.
a. Max can go to school whether or not
b. Max can go to school even if
.
.
6. Sometimes the weather is hot, sometimes the weather is cold. It doesn’t matter.
My grandfather always wears his gray sweater.
a. My grandfather wears his gray sweater whether or not
b. My grandfather wears his gray sweater even if
.
7. Your approval doesn’t matter to me.
a. I’m going to marry Harry whether
b. I’m going to marry Harry even if
.
or not.
.
Exercise 19: Show the relationship between the ideas in the two sentences by using in
case and/or in the event that.
1. You probably won’t need to get in touch with me, but maybe you will. If so, I’ll give
you my phone number.
→I’ll give you my phone number in case you (should) need to get in touch with
me/in the event that you (should) need to get in touch with me.
2. You probably won’t need to see me, but maybe you will.
If so, I’ll be in my office tomorrow morning around ten.
→
3. I don’t think you need any more information, but maybe you do.
If so, you can call me.
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4. You probably don’t have any more questions, but maybe you do.
If so, ask Dr. Smith.
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5. You will probably be satisfied with your purchase, but maybe not.
If not, you can return it to the store.
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6. Jack probably won’t call, but maybe he will.
If so, please tell him that I’m at the library.
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Exercise 20: Make sentences with the same meaning by using unless.
1. I will go to the zoo if it isn’t cold.
→I will go to the zoo unless it’s cold.
2. You can’t travel abroad if you don’t have a passport.
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3. You can’t get a driver’s license if you’re not at least sixteen years old.
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4. If I don’t get some film, I won’t be able to take pictures when Ann and Rob get here.
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5. You’ll get hungry during class if you don’t eat breakfast.
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Exercise 21: Complete the sentences.
1. Your letter won’t be delivered unless
it has the correct postage.
2. I’m sorry, but you can’t see the doctor unless
3. I can’t graduate from school unless
4.
.
.
unless you put it in the refrigerator.
5. Unless it rains,
.
6. Certain species of animals will soon become extinct unless
7.
unless I get a raise in salary.
8. Tomorrow I’m going to
unless
.
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