Exercise 3: Rewriting Conditionals

How can you express these ideas using conditional constructions?

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You may use I or you in your sentence, and choose the tense you prefer. Would any of these conditional sentences work, and mean the same, with a word other than if? Possible answers are given after each question, together with a reference to a number from the conditionals chart which gives more detail about the type of conditional used.

Example 1	I don't know whether I'm going to Australia. Let's suppose I go. What can I do there?
Answer:	If you go to Australia, you can stroke a kangaroo.
or	If I went to Australia, I could see the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
or	Supposing you go/went to Australia, you can/could visit a wildlife park.

Example 2	I wish the weather was good. I want to go to the beach.
Answer:	If the weather was good, I would go to the beach.
or	Supposing the weather was good, I would go to the beach.
or	Providing that the weather is good, I will go to the beach.
or	As long as the weather is good, I will go to the beach.

4. I wanted to learn Japanese when I was younger, but I did not have the opportunity. Years later, I was offered a university scholarship in Tokyo, and I wanted to go. I didn't go, though, because I couldn't speak Japanese.
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Possible answers using mainly conditional type 9 (past time):

If I had learned Japanese, I would have gone to university in Tokyo.

Even though I wanted to learn Japanese, I could not.

It's a pity I didn’t learn Japanese when I was younger, otherwise I would have gone to Tokyo.

I would have gone to Tokyo provided/providing that I could speak Japanese.

He/She would not go to Tokyo unless he/she spoke Japanese.

I would only have gone to Tokyo if I had spoken Japanese.