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If Clauses 3

1. If there had been no one to encourage her and feed her ego at this time, ----.

she might well have given up writing altogether

the critics were indeed merciless

even her best novels attracted little attention

like many of her friendships, this one was short-lived

she has not been able to repeat the success

2. If labour could be measured adequately in simple homogeneous units of time, such as labourhours, ----.

it covers many other kinds of areas as well, such as social security and worker satisfaction

a change in the organization of the communitys labour would be likely to increase the annual production of wealth

earlier economists failed to find a simple relation between the value of a product and the quantity of labour that it embodied

different uses of the available supply of labour need to be considered

the problems of economics would be considerably simplified

3. If there is too much mineral accumulation in the compost, ----.

roots get burnt and plants die

some plants need less fertilizer than others

the flowering season was greatly reduced

most plants grow far more quickly in wet areas

the growing conditions also need to be considered

4. Environmentalists are criticizing the patent office for delaying its decision on some new measuring instruments ----.

while the guidelines have been consistently ignored

if applications for patents on plants are on the increase

before objections were filed against patents on a herbicide resistant plant

since they believe that these are urgently needed to detect certain problems

as if the controversy had actually died down

5. If a financial gain is thereby achieved, then the time spent in the educational process ---- seen as an investment.

might have been

would be

was

had been

can be

6. If the people of a country is made up of several races, racial harmony isnt always easy to achieve.

It has always been difficult to keep harmonious relations between its individuals.

There being different races in a country usually leads to conflict between its individuals.

In a country whose people is composed of a number of races, it can sometimes be difficult to establish harmony.

To achieve harmony between the races of a country isnt at all possible.

Racial harmony between the races that compose the people of a country is sometimes possible.

7. To tell you the truth, I was rather disappointed in this new production of Carmen

To be fair, there wasnt much that was new in this production of Carmen.

If you really want to know, the new production of Carmen wasnt as good as Id hoped it would be.

Obviously I was disappointed to learn that they were doing Carmen again.

Someone should have told you that the new production of Carmen is not as good as we hoped.

Theyll have to admit that this new production of Carmen may prove unsatisfactory.

8. If only hed been less officious the other side would certainly have been more amenable.

His behaviour was so disagreeable that it caused an impasse between the two sides.

The other side naturally left offended by the officious manner in which he had approached them.

He should be reproached for being so disagreeable and offending the other side.

I wish he could have made himself more agreeable to the other side and ensured a better response from them.

Surely he behaved in a more considerate manner so as to gain the cooperation of the other side.

9. ____ , there will be a notable decrease in the profits of most businesses.

If people start to spend less and save more

However efficiently the inflation was curbed

Had these reasonable measures been introduced earlier

Before the financial situation could be fully understood

Though the leading economists had started to grow more hopeful

10. He has retired and he is now consultant for several businesses and this brings him in more money than he ever used to earn in his full time job.

If he had wanted to retire, he could have acted as a consultant for several agencies and this would have given him a better income.

Once he had retired he became a consultant for several organizations because he needed an additional income.

So that his income would not drop when he retired from full time employment he started to work in an advisory capacity for several organizations.

Though he has been retired for some time, he now earns twice as much as when he was in a full time job because he is working as a consultant for quite a lot of firms.

He earned less when he was in full time employment than he does now that he is retired and acting as a consultant for two or three firms.