Mixed conditionals — inversion + modal variation — Your Brain Has a Friend Limit
Grammar: Conditionals
Free ESL grammar exercise on mixed conditionals — inversion + modal variation themed around your brain has a friend limit. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL grammar exercise on science, practising conditionals. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Had our ancestors faced the social complexity of modern life, they might have developed very different neural wiring.
Grammar: Conditionals
- Inverted mixed
- Had she grown up in Brazil, she might now feel differently. — past condition, present result
- Modal variation
- Had he studied linguistics, he could now explain this. — could/might = less certain than would
Sample items
- Had Dunbar not compared brain sizes across species, we ______ the 150-person limit.
- If humans were not wired for in-group loyalty, history ______ very differently.
- Had she grown up in a more collective culture, she ______ more comfortable with herd mentality now.
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