Third Conditional — The Distance Between Us
Grammar: Conditionals
Free ESL grammar exercise on third conditional themed around the distance between us. 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
Singer's response was characteristically direct. "If we had not waded in, we would have allowed a child to die." By that logic, had his critics followed the argument honestly, they would have reached the same uncomfortable conclusion: proximity is morally irrelevant.
Grammar: Conditionals
- Third conditional
- If Singer had not written the essay, the debate would have looked very different. — past unreal condition + past unreal result
- Inversion in third
- Had governments acted sooner, millions would have been saved. — formal register; omit if, invert auxiliary
Sample items
- If Singer ______ his essay in a different decade, effective altruism might have emerged much later.
- If governments ______ poverty as a collective moral failure earlier, billions of dollars in aid would have been redirected.
- She would have donated far more if she ______ the principle of marginal utility.
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