Ex. 75, p. 477 1. I wish you hadn't been so careless. It wouldn't have happened, if you had
followed your friends' advice. 2. But for the moon it would be completely dark now.
3. He looked tired as if he hadn't had a rest for a long time. 4. I wish you knew his
address, then we would be able to go and see him today. 5. I feel as though you had
never left. 6. If I were you, I would have behaved more resolutely in such a situation.
7. It could/ might have been done yesterday, but it is no use doing it (there is no
point/use in doing it now). 8. I wish I had been with you when it happened. 9. "I wish
my portrait could grow old and I could always remain young and handsome," said
Dorian. 10. In your place anyone would have done the same thing. 11. He answered
that his friend had not got the tickets though he might have if he had come to the
box-office an hour earlier. 12. If there were no oxygen in the air, we couldn't breathe.
13. But for you/If it hadn't been for you, young man, I might/could have drowned.
You saved my life. 14. If I were you, I would have these poems published/I would
publish these poems. 15. I am sure that he will behave as though he didn't feel any
pain.
Ex. 77, p. 478 1. Tell me what you
would do/would have done if you
were/ had been in my
place? 2. But for you I
would have l e f t long ago. 3. She speaks slowly as if she
were translating from a foreign language. 4. I wish I
had never met him. 5. People were
standing around as if they
expected something to happen. 6. I wish you
would be like
me for two minutes. 7. If Bob
had gone out before, we
would have noticed him. 8.
But for the underground the traffic in Moscow
would be very heavy. 9. She is
looking at me as if she
did not know me. 10. That
would have interested me some
four years ago. 11. If I
had known what it all meant, I
wouldn't have come. 12. It
seems to me that what she refused then she
would be glad to get now. 13. My dear
Algy, you talk exactly as if you
were a dentist. 14. But for her words my life
would have taken a different course. 15. At that moment she almost wished she
had not sent for him. 16. She wrote with her own hand the letters which under normal
circumstances she
would have dictated to her secretary.