Unit 2: Conditionals - Practice Quiz

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1 Which sentence is a real conditional?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Easy
A. If it rains, we will stay inside.
B. If it rained, we would stay inside.
C. If it had rained, we would have stayed inside.
D. If it had rained, we would be inside now.

2 Which sentence uses the second conditional?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Easy
A. If I had had time, I would have traveled.
B. If I had time, I would travel.
C. If I have time, I will travel.
D. If I have time, I usually travel.

3 Which sentence is a mixed conditional?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Easy
A. If she had studied, she would be confident now.
B. If she studied, she would pass.
C. If she had studied, she would have passed.
D. If she studies, she will pass.

4 Which sentence has the correct punctuation?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Easy
A. If you feel tired, take a break.
B. If you feel, tired take a break.
C. If you feel tired take, a break.
D. If, you feel tired take a break.

5 Which sentence is correctly punctuated when the main clause comes first?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Easy
A. We will leave if the bus arrives.
B. We will leave, if the bus arrives.
C. We, will leave if the bus arrives.
D. We will, leave if the bus arrives.

6 Which sentence correctly reverses the order of the clauses in If you call me, I will help you?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Easy
A. If I will help you, you call me.
B. You call me if I will help you.
C. I will help you if you call me.
D. I will help, you if you call me.

7 What does only if usually introduce?

Usage of only if Easy
A. A necessary condition
B. An unexpected contrast
C. A negative exception
D. A choice of alternatives

8 Complete the sentence: You may enter ___ you have a valid ticket.

Usage of only if Easy
A. only if
B. unless
C. whether
D. even if

9 Which sentence means that permission is required before you can leave?

Usage of only if Easy
A. You can leave even if the teacher disagrees.
B. You can leave whether the teacher agrees.
C. You can leave only if the teacher agrees.
D. You can leave unless the teacher agrees.

10 What does even if commonly express?

Usage of even if Easy
A. A condition that is always required
B. A result unchanged by a condition
C. A condition expressed negatively
D. A choice between two possibilities

11 Complete the sentence: I will attend the meeting ___ I am tired.

Usage of even if Easy
A. only if
B. even if
C. whether
D. unless

12 Which sentence means that rain will not change the speaker's plan?

Usage of even if Easy
A. I will go even if it rains.
B. I will go unless it rains.
C. I will go if it does not rain.
D. I will go only if it rains.

13 The word unless is closest in meaning to which expression?

Usage of unless Easy
A. even though
B. only if
C. if not
D. whether or not

14 Which sentence has the same meaning as If you do not hurry, you will miss the bus?

Usage of unless Easy
A. Unless you hurry, you will miss the bus.
B. Unless you wait, you will catch the bus.
C. Even if you hurry, you will miss the bus.
D. Only if you hurry, you will miss the bus.

15 Complete the sentence: We cannot begin ___ everyone is ready.

Usage of unless Easy
A. even if
B. whether
C. if so
D. unless

16 What does whether commonly introduce?

Usage of whether Easy
A. One negative condition
B. One necessary condition
C. One certain result
D. Two possible alternatives

17 Complete the sentence: I do not know ___ she will attend.

Usage of whether Easy
A. whether
B. only if
C. even if
D. unless

18 Which sentence correctly uses whether or not?

Usage of whether Easy
A. We will continue unless or not it rains.
B. We will continue whether or not it rains.
C. We will continue only if or not it rains.
D. We will continue even if or not it rains.

19 What does if so mean?

Usage of if so Easy
A. If that is false
B. Despite that fact
C. If that is true
D. Until that happens

20 Complete the passage: Are you free this afternoon? ___, please call me.

Usage of if so Easy
A. Unless
B. If so
C. Whether
D. Only if

21 If the weather improves this afternoon, we ____ the outdoor event.

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Medium
A. would hold
B. held
C. will hold
D. would have held

22 If Maya had accepted the scholarship, she ____ at the university now.

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Medium
A. would be studying
B. will study
C. had studied
D. studies

23 Which sentence correctly expresses an unreal past condition and its past result?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Medium
A. If I knew earlier, I would have helped.
B. If I know earlier, I would help.
C. If I had known earlier, I will help.
D. If I had known earlier, I would have helped.

24 Choose the sentence that correctly describes a general fact.

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Medium
A. If metal is heated, it expands.
B. If metal had heated, it expanded.
C. If metal heated, it expands.
D. If metal heats, it will expand.

25 Which sentence has the correct punctuation?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Medium
A. If the train is delayed we, will take a taxi.
B. If, the train is delayed we will take a taxi.
C. If the train is delayed, we will take a taxi.
D. If the train is delayed we will take a taxi.

26 Which sentence correctly places the conditional clause after the main clause?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Medium
A. We will postpone the match, if it rains.
B. We will postpone, the match if it rains.
C. We will postpone the match if it rains.
D. If it rains we, will postpone the match.

27 Which sentence preserves the meaning of "If you need assistance, contact the help desk"?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Medium
A. If you need assistance contact, the help desk.
B. If contact the help desk, you need assistance.
C. Contact the help desk if you need assistance.
D. Contact, the help desk if you need assistance.

28 Which sentence correctly uses only if to express a strict condition?

Usage of only if Medium
A. You may only if enter you show your identification.
B. Only if you show your identification, you may entering.
C. You may enter if only you show your identification.
D. You may enter only if you show your identification.

29 Which sentence correctly emphasizes the condition by placing only if at the beginning?

Usage of only if Medium
A. Only if the roads clear will the buses operate.
B. Only if the roads are clear will the buses operate.
C. Only if are the roads clear, will operate the buses.
D. Only if the roads clear, the buses will operate.

30 Choose the sentence with the correct meaning: receiving a refund requires returning the product within seven days.

Usage of only if Medium
A. You only receive if a refund return the product within seven days.
B. Only if you receive a refund, you return the product within seven days.
C. You receive a refund if only you return the product within seven days.
D. You receive a refund only if you return the product within seven days.

31 Which sentence correctly shows that the result will remain unchanged despite a possible problem?

Usage of even if Medium
A. Even if the price rising, we will renew the contract.
B. Even if the price rises, we will renew the contract.
C. Even if the price rose, we renew the contract yesterday.
D. Even if the price rises, we would renewed the contract.

32 Choose the sentence that correctly contrasts if and even if.

Usage of even if Medium
A. Even if he apologized, I will never forgiven him.
B. Even if he apologizes, I may never forgive him.
C. If he apologizes, I would never forgive him yesterday.
D. If he apologizes, I may forgive him.

33 Which sentence refers to an unreal or unlikely situation while emphasizing that it would not change the result?

Usage of even if Medium
A. Even if I were offered the position, I would decline it.
B. Even if I am offered the position, I declined it.
C. Even if I offered the position, I will declined it.
D. Even if I had offered the position, I decline it.

34 Choose the sentence closest in meaning to "If you do not submit the form, your application will be rejected."

Usage of unless Medium
A. Unless submitting the form, your application rejected.
B. Unless you submit the form, your application will be rejected.
C. Unless you submitted the form, your application will reject.
D. Unless you do not submit the form, your application will be rejected.

35 Which sentence uses unless correctly?

Usage of unless Medium
A. We unless will go hiking the storm continues.
B. We will go hiking unless the storm continues.
C. Unless the storm continues, we will not go hiking always.
D. We will go hiking unless the storm does not continue.

36 Which sentence correctly uses whether to introduce two possible alternatives?

Usage of whether Medium
A. I do not know whether the museum is open.
B. I do not know whether is the museum open.
C. I do not know whether the museum open is.
D. I do not know if whether the museum is open.

37 Choose the sentence that correctly uses whether or not.

Usage of whether Medium
A. Whether it rains or not, will the ceremony begin at noon.
B. Whether it rain or not, the ceremony would began at noon.
C. Whether or not it rains, the ceremony will begin at noon.
D. Whether or not rains it, the ceremony begin at noon.

38 Read the exchange: "Are you available for the interview tomorrow?" "If so, I will send you the meeting link." What does if so refer to?

Usage of if so Medium
A. If the interview is canceled
B. If the interview was held yesterday
C. If the person is available tomorrow
D. If the meeting link is missing

39 Which sentence uses if so correctly as a reference to the previous statement?

Usage of if so Medium
A. The report may contain errors. If so, we should check the data again.
B. The report may contain errors. If so, we should not check it again.
C. The report may contain errors. If so the data checked yesterday.
D. The report may contain errors. If so, it contain no errors.

40 Which revision correctly avoids repeating the phrase "the application has been approved"?

Usage of if so Medium
A. Has the application been approved? If so, please forward the confirmation.
B. Has the application been approved? If so, please forwarding confirmation.
C. Has the application been approved? If so, please to forward confirmed.
D. Has the application been approved? If so, please forward it approved.

41 Which sentence correctly expresses that a rejected past job offer is the reason the speaker does not live in Tokyo now?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Hard
A. If I had accepted the offer, I would live in Tokyo now.
B. If I would have accepted the offer, I lived in Tokyo now.
C. If I accepted the offer, I would live in Tokyo now.
D. If I had accepted the offer, I would have lived in Tokyo then and might perhaps still be living there now.

42 Mira is extremely meticulous. Because of that enduring quality, she detected an error during yesterday's audit. Which conditional expresses this relationship correctly?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Hard
A. If Mira were not meticulous, she would have missed the error.
B. If Mira had not been meticulous, she would not miss the error.
C. If Mira were not meticulous, she would miss the error yesterday.
D. If Mira would not be meticulous, she had missed the error.

43 Which sentence correctly states a realistic future condition without using "will" to express simple futurity in the if-clause?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Hard
A. If the supplier delivers by noon, production will resume.
B. If the supplier will deliver by noon, production resumes.
C. If the supplier delivered by noon, production will resume.
D. If the supplier would deliver by noon, production resumed.

44 Which sentence uses "will" acceptably inside an if-clause because it indicates willingness rather than neutral futurity?

Rules and usage of real, unreal and mixed conditionals Hard
A. If prices will rise tomorrow, we should buy today.
B. If the train will arrive at six, we can meet it.
C. If the committee will announce its routine decision next week according to the published schedule, reporters should wait.
D. If you will sign here, I can release the documents.

45 Which sentence is punctuated correctly under standard formal conventions?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Hard
A. If the data are verified, the article will be published.
B. The article, will be published if the data are verified.
C. If the data are verified the article will be published.
D. The article will be published, if the data are verified.

46 Which inverted conditional is correctly ordered and punctuated?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Hard
A. Had the warning been issued earlier, the evacuation would have succeeded.
B. Had been the warning issued earlier, the evacuation would have succeeded.
C. The evacuation would have succeeded, had the warning issued earlier.
D. Had the warning issued earlier the evacuation, would have succeeded.

47 Which version correctly punctuates a conditional inserted parenthetically into the main clause?

Order and punctuation marks in conditionals Hard
A. The revised policy if approved will, take effect in June.
B. The revised policy, if approved will take effect in June.
C. The revised policy, if approved, will take effect in June.
D. The revised policy if approved, will take effect in June.

48 Which sentence correctly uses subject-auxiliary inversion after a fronted "only if" clause?

Usage of only if Hard
A. Only if does the audit pass, the board will approve the merger.
B. Only if the audit passes will the board approve the merger.
C. Only if the audit passes, the board will approve the merger.
D. Only if the audit will pass, will the board have been able to approve the merger at its next scheduled meeting.

49 The statement "The archive opens only if a curator is present" establishes which logical relationship?

Usage of only if Hard
A. The archive opens whenever no curator is present.
B. The archive's opening requires a curator's presence.
C. A curator must remain present because the archive necessarily opens throughout every curator's entire shift.
D. A curator's presence guarantees that the archive opens.

50 Which sentence means that submitting identification is necessary for entry, without claiming that identification alone guarantees entry?

Usage of only if Hard
A. You may enter only if you submit identification.
B. You may enter if you submit identification.
C. You may enter if and only if you submit identification.
D. Only if you may enter, you submit identification.

51 Which sentence most clearly conveys that the result will remain unchanged under the hypothetical condition?

Usage of even if Hard
A. If only the forecast improves, the expedition will remain canceled.
B. Unless the forecast improves, the expedition will remain canceled after the organizers reassess every available route.
C. Even if the forecast improves, the expedition will remain canceled.
D. Even though the forecast improves, the expedition would remain canceled.

52 The speaker does not know whether Leo apologized, but insists that an apology would not excuse the deception. Which sentence is most accurate?

Usage of even if Hard
A. Even though Leo apologized, that would not excuse the deception.
B. Even if Leo apologized, that would not excuse the deception.
C. Unless Leo apologized, that would not excuse the deception.
D. Whether Leo certainly apologized yesterday, that would not excuse the deception under any interpretation.

53 Which sentence is the closest standard equivalent of "Unless the seal is broken, the contents remain sterile"?

Usage of unless Hard
A. If the seal is broken, the contents remain sterile.
B. If the seal is not broken, the contents remain sterile.
C. Even if the seal has been broken accidentally during transport, the contents continue to remain completely sterile.
D. Only if the seal is not broken, the contents become sterile.

54 Which sentence uses "unless" correctly and avoids nonstandard redundant negation?

Usage of unless Hard
A. Unless the witness retracts the claim, proceedings will continue.
B. Unless the witness will retract the claim, proceedings would continue.
C. Unless the witness has not formally retracted the disputed claim in writing, proceedings will continue as currently scheduled.
D. Unless the witness does not retract the claim, proceedings will continue.

55 Which rewrite preserves the meaning of "I will attend unless the meeting is postponed"?

Usage of unless Hard
A. I will not attend if the meeting is not postponed.
B. I will attend because the meeting cannot possibly be postponed under the current procedural rules.
C. I will attend only if the meeting is postponed.
D. I will attend if the meeting is not postponed.

56 Which sentence correctly presents two explicit alternatives as the object of a preposition?

Usage of whether Hard
A. The outcome depends on whether the panel accepts or rejects the appeal.
B. The outcome depends whether the panel accepts or rejects the appeal.
C. The outcome depends on whether or if the panel eventually accepts the appeal after reviewing every submission.
D. The outcome depends on if the panel accepts or rejects the appeal.

57 Which completion correctly indicates that the action will occur regardless of the stated alternatives?

Usage of whether Hard
A. If the server recovers or not, the logs must be preserved.
B. Only if the server recovers or does not recover after the full diagnostic procedure, the logs must be preserved.
C. Unless the server recovers or not, the logs must be preserved.
D. Whether the server recovers or not, the logs must be preserved.

58 Which sentence is correct when the interrogative clause functions as the subject of the sentence?

Usage of whether Hard
A. If the evidence was altered remains uncertain.
B. Whether the evidence was altered remains uncertain.
C. Whether or if the evidence was deliberately altered by an authorized investigator remains deeply uncertain.
D. Unless the evidence was altered remains uncertain.

59 Choose the most coherent completion: "The contract may contain an automatic-renewal clause; ____, notify the legal team immediately."

Usage of if so Hard
A. if not so
B. unless so, after conducting a complete review of every clause
C. whether so
D. if so

60 Which sentence uses "if so" with a clear and logically matching antecedent?

Usage of if so Hard
A. Has the laboratory denied contamination? If so, the contamination is confirmed.
B. The laboratory confirmed that the samples were clean. If so, isolate them because contamination has definitely been established.
C. The laboratory may test the samples. If so, contamination caused the test.
D. Has the laboratory confirmed contamination? If so, isolate the affected samples.