1. Remember the main types of conditionals (see Appendix A. Conditionals). Find and correct the mistakes in the following conditional sentences. Two
sentences have no mistakes.
1. If we were to increase the salaries that we paid our police force, the level of
protection would not necessarily have improved.
2. Stricter discipline in schools is only a viable proposition if parents will be prepared
to reinforce it in the home.
3. Had these measures been taken ten years ago, when they were first suggested, we would be seeing the benefits now.
4. If it was not the intervention of social workers, many more domestic disputes
would occur.
5. Even if children had a stricter upbringing, some of them will still turn to crime.
6. Should the government go ahead with its plans to lower the school-leaving age,
there would be a massive rise in the number of unemployed teenagers.
7. If children will be more severely punished for the first offence, then the situation
might improve.
8. If they are not being prepared to do anything about it, then they must face the
consequences of their negligence.
9. If the current trend for automation continues, then factory workers throughout the
country could lose their jobs.
10. Only if action is taken now we will avoid a catastrophe.
Chewing gum is usually associated with some thoughtless automatic process. Television has recently become like a chewing gum too. For many years it has been considered the main source of information. But in recent years it has turned out in some endless entertainment full of silly commercials and stupid soap operas. Very often people can’t tell one film from another, or one TV show from another because they are so much alike. For some people watching TV turned into the constant switching of the channels. They fail to find what they like so they prefer to watch a little bit of everything which leads to total absence of any integral or useful information. It is very hard to get a full picture of a film when every five minutes it is interrupted by commercials. Permanent blinking of bright colours and a rapid change of images make people lose the sense of what is shown. In the end they just passively watch the programmes as if they were chewing a gum. And when a programme becomes too boring, they just switch to another channel. And the next day people just take a new fresh chewing gum and chew it till it becomes tasteless and then they spit it out ruthlessly. Don’t you think watching TV is the same?
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