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b. The boys are still (work/have worked/are working) in the field.
c. Shabdik (will shift/will be shifting/ will have shifted) to

Bangkok by next year.
d. When the hails (fell/were falling/have fallen) we were dancing

in the picnic.
e. He (has massaged/will massage/massaged) his face. It looks cute.

f. We (didn’t check/haven’t checked/don’t check) the counter yet.
g. We (will start/started/had been starting) the work in five minutes.

h. We (have been planting/ planted/had planted) paddy since 1992.
i. We (visit/ will visit/visited) Europe last summer.

j. Lali (filed/will file/had filed) the case in court but Mali didn’t.
3.3. Read the sentences below and note the relationship of a condition

with its consequence.

a. If I were a bird, I would fly.

b. If I were you, I would take an extra class.
c. If I had a hundred rupees, I would donate it to the flood victims.
d. If had been born in India, I would have spoken Hindi.
e. If I had taken less fat, I would have been free of hypertension.
f. Had you woken up earlier, you wouldn’t have missed the bus

* The consequences in sentences a and c are imaginative and b is
advisory.
* The consequences in d, e and f are impossible, they are used

only to regret a past situation.
3.4. Add a suitable consequence to the following conditions.

a. If I won a lottery of Rs. 100,000, ……………………………..
b. If I were a grade one student, …………………………………..

c. If he had labored hard, ………………………………………..
d. Had the police got the information in time, ………………………….

e. If a fairy came to me, …………………………………………

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