Mixed Conditionals — Your Brain Voted Before You Did
Grammar: Conditionals
Free ESL grammar exercise on mixed conditionals themed around your brain voted before you did. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on psychology, practising conditionals. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
If you had grown up in a different community, your sense of in-group loyalty might be completely different today. Equally, if loss aversion were weaker in humans, our ancestors would not have survived the environments that shaped us. The wiring is old. The pause is new.
Grammar: Conditionals
- Mixed conditional (1)
- If she had studied ethics, she would be more careful now. — past condition → present result
- Mixed conditional (2)
- If he were more self-aware, he would not have rationalised it. — present state → past action
Sample items
- If she ______ more about cognitive override, she would be applying it automatically by now.
- If in-group bias ______ less powerful, humans might not have built the cooperative societies we have today.
- He ______ a more reliable moral agent today if he had confronted his loss aversion years ago.
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