Level 6Sportgrammar

Advanced Conditionals — The Score Nobody Asked For

Grammar: Advanced conditional structures

Free ESL grammar exercise on advanced conditionals themed around the score nobody asked for. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on sport, practising advanced conditional structures. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

Djokovic said that had the ATP and WTA acted sooner on the revenue-sharing proposals, none of this would have been necessary.

Grammar

Had + subject + past
Inverted third conditional without if. Had the ATP acted sooner, none of this would have happened. Formal, written register.
Were + subject +
Hypothetical present or future, formal. Were the tours to adopt the levy, hundreds of players would benefit. More tentative than if they adopted.

Sample items

  1. ______ the players not hired economists, their argument would have been far easier to ignore.
  2. ______ the Grand Slams to ratify the proposal, professional tennis would change its economic model for the first time in decades.
  3. But ______ the broadcast partners' interest, the working group might never have been formed.

Subscribe to access the full exercise

View Plans